Carol Ann Duffy Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Carol Ann Duffy on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
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.
What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?
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.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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.
I took an axe
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept.
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept.
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.