I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
From Wendy Cope
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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