Helen Dunmore Quotes

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Helen Dunmore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 12, 1952 - June 5, 2017

Topics

WordsPoetryWritingLearnYouHead

Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.

Joe Bastianich

TimeWaterI AmNightWake UpDream

People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.

Joey Fatone

PeopleFakeSomeoneRealSenseTV

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

John Ratzenberger

FamilyDiabetesKidsAffects

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

Snoop Dogg

FootballEasyKidGangAcademics

There's a Norwegian equivalent to 'BBC Introducing' called 'P3 Untouched,' and I remember when they played the first song I ever wrote that I'd put online. I was 16 at that point. That was the first moment where I was like, 'Oh, maybe this is something I want to do more of.'

Sigrid

MomentSongRememberWantFirst

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

Mary J. Blige

NeverBeatAlbumAnyExtend

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

Mary MacLane

LoveBookSomeoneWishKnowNever

To see people laughing or crying or listening, then being inspired to do their own thing? I can't think of anything better than that.

Michaela Coel

PeopleListeningThinkBetterSee

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

Mitchell Reiss

MoreLittleFlexibilityRealismShow

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Antony Sher

LifeAttitudeRandomFateDownWay

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.

Wilt Chamberlain

GameCareerSameFansGetWho

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Peter Greenaway

BlessingDieKnowCurseGoing

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