All Carol Ann Duffy Quotes
- Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. Deal
- You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your… Bus
- Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw. From
- I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. Always Say
- If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening. Ahead
- If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just… Civil
- It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. Brown
- I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. Memorable
- Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. Auden
- How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening? April
- It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal Always Good
- Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely Funny
- Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have Child
- Poetry and prayer are very similar Funny
- I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety Abuse
- I still read Donne, particularly his love poems Donne
- My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy Any
- I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales Book
- When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't… Child
- The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language… Experience