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Poetry Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy
- 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…
- Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
- It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal
- Poetry and prayer are very similar
- I still read Donne, particularly his love poems
- I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school…
- I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
- I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
- I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
- She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there;…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden