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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smiths autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape. – Ellie Goulding

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I Know You Care is about my dad. And I havent seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a – it was my way of saying that I wasnt bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing. – Ellie Goulding

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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because Ive spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. Ive always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black. – Ellie Goulding

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Poetry is the overflowing of the soul. – Henry T. Tuckerman, “Bryant,” Thoughts on the Poets, 1850

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Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say 65-66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that. – Robert Adamson

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Poetry mends a broken arrow then shoots us in the heart with it. – Terri Guillemets, “Love, life, poetry,” 2016

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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. – Compay Segundo

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