I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Love’s language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.” — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language...… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“along with the rest of our helpless world; and, O, if you could, you would, where lovers walked, sell off trees and… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this:… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership,… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas where we would dive for pearls. My… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
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,… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup. Or when… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid steams in your china cup. Or when… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
