• Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.

  Source: Valentine, from Mean Time (1993)

  Carol Ann Duffy
  British poet and playwright
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. undressing
2. truthful
3. trying
4. brown
5. paper
6. light

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Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful. by : Carol Ann Duffy

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