"Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms."

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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

— Carol Ann Duffy