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Carol Ann Duffy quotes - page 2
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
Carol Ann Duffy
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
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
I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
Carol Ann Duffy
I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
Carol Ann Duffy
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
Carol Ann Duffy
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
Carol Ann Duffy
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
Carol Ann Duffy
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
Carol Ann Duffy
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
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
Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.
Carol Ann Duffy
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
Carol Ann Duffy
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
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
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