Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

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 heart. - Carol Ann Duffy

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light. - Carol Ann Duffy

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

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. - 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. - Carol Ann Duffy

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

Poetry and prayer are very similar. - Carol Ann Duffy

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

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

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

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