"I like to think that I'm a sort…" — Carol Ann Duffy

"I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times."

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

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