"The moment of inspiration can come from memory,……" — Carol Ann Duffy
"The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form."
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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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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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