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Carol Ann Duffy quotes

British Poet December 23, 1955

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I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. Carol Ann Duffy
ANNE HATHAWAY The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas where we would dive for pearls. My lover’s words were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme to his, now echo, assonance; his touch a verb dancing in the centre of a noun. Some nights, I dreamed he’d written me, the bed a page beneath his writer’s hands. Romance and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste. In the other bed, the best, our... Carol Ann Duffy
TEA I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup. Or when you’re away, or at work, I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip, as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips. I like the questions – sugar? – milk? – and the answers I don’t know by heart, yet, for I see your soul in your eyes, and I forget. Jasmine, Gunpowder, Assam, Earl Grey, Ceylon, I love tea’s names. Which tea would you like? I say but it’s... Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy quote: "I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. 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
Carol Ann Duffy quote: "I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing..."
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. 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
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
Carol Ann Duffy quote: "What will you do now with the gift of your left life?"
What will you do now with the gift of your left life? 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
I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy quote: "Beauty is fame."
Beauty is fame. 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
Carol Ann Duffy quote: "I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as..."
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
Carol Ann Duffy quote: "If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars..."
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening. Carol Ann Duffy

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