between "dumbing down" and "reaching new readers". New readers are neither dumb nor less important because they are only encouraged to pick up a poetry anthology when it is endorsed by Mia Farrow, Philip Pullman or Meryl Streep. Or for that matter, because they are only encouraged to attend a Josephine Hart poetry event when Dominic West is reading Robert Frost and Robert Lowell. Everyone has to begin with a first step in the right direction.from Frieda Hughes: The Times: Frieda Hughes enjoys the intimacy of watching poets on film
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"The moment I met Laszlo on a garden path, we fell in love. He gave me a hug and he smelled right; he smelled clean. We moved in after our first date without knowing each others' surnames. This painting is about that explosion, like being in a bubble of light"
from Frieda Hughes: The Guardian: Pieces of me
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