"I am always pleased to be asked to…" — Carol Ann Duffy
"I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem."
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41 Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news,…
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Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
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I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
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If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
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If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or…
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It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
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I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you…
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
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It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is…
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Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely
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