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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither t

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. – Andrew Motion

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice Im likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. – Andrew Motion

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Imagination
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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Fear
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People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear. – Dan Farmer

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God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. – Ruby Dee

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Fear

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Fear

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. – Jean de La Fontaine

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I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying. – Cat Cora

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. – Aristotle

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