Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, Write, Read

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Carol Ann Duffy

Short, Write, Almost

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
Carol Ann Duffy

Truth, Trying, Creative

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, True, Nothing

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.
Carol Ann Duffy

Work, Between, Intensely

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
Carol Ann Duffy

Christmas, Father, Seriously

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
Carol Ann Duffy

Children, Theatre, City

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
Carol Ann Duffy

Problems, Matter, Child

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
Carol Ann Duffy

Away, Child, Takes

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
Carol Ann Duffy

Whether, Fine, Works

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
Carol Ann Duffy

Life, Mother, Wanted

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
Carol Ann Duffy

Write, Asked, Pleased

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
Carol Ann Duffy

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
Carol Ann Duffy

Writing, Before, Start

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, Love, Read

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.
Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, Children, Help

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
Carol Ann Duffy

Different, Anxiety, Abuse

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
Carol Ann Duffy

Between, Write, Space

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
Carol Ann Duffy

Writing, Picture, Books

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
Carol Ann Duffy

Change, Water, Ahead

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
Carol Ann Duffy

Good, Women, Poetry

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
Carol Ann Duffy

Energy, Prose, Hasn

Poetry and prayer are very similar.
Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, Prayer, Similar

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Carol Ann Duffy

Writing, Feelings, Trying

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
Carol Ann Duffy

Deep, Play, Young

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 23, 1955

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