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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
— Carol Ann Duffy
The stars are filming us for no one.
— 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
What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?
— Carol Ann Duffy
I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
— Carol Ann Duffy
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
— 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 heart.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
— 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
Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I think of him in certain lights, dawn, late afternoon,...
— Carol Ann Duffy
And here you come with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue — Carol Ann Duffy
I took an axeTo 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. — Carol Ann Duffy
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.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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.
— 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
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
— Carol Ann Duffy
bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.
— Carol Ann Duffy
How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
— Carol Ann Duffy
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
— Carol Ann Duffy
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
— 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
Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.
— 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
The Latin names of plants blur like belief.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
— 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
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.
— Carol Ann Duffy
What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
— Carol Ann Duffy
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
— 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
If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would.
— 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 am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Love's language starts, stops, starts;the right words flowing or clotting in the heart. — Carol Ann Duffy
Poets sing our human music for us.
— Carol Ann Duffy
