"You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue."

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Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2013). “Mean Time”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

Carol Ann Duffy

#Drawing Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”
“'m so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.”
“It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.”
“There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.”
“I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.”
“Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.”

Source : Henrik Ibsen (1964). “Letters and speeches”
“Certainly miscarriage is not invariably related to low thyroid function. There are many other possible causes. Yet soon after thyroid therapy first became available, it was found that patients with a history of miscarriages often had a history compatible with thyroid deficiency and that full-term pregnancies might follow treatment with thyroid.”
“The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.”

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