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Gillian Clarke is a Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator.

✵ 8. June 1937
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Gillian Clarke Quotes

“There is no such thing as a silent poem.”

Gillian Clarke

BBC Radio 4 broadcast, July 2, 2000

“There is an extra loss for a Welsh poet writing in English, and that is, the longing for Welsh, the secret language.. of all the centuries of speech and song.”

Gillian Clarke

Modern Women Poets (2005)

Secret , Loss

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