Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

Faces

Laughing

Littles

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Better Off Dead

Giving

Want

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.

Being Human

Machines

Who We Are

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

Childhood

Children

I always say that I’ll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

Doe

Fine

Ifs

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Book

Way

Writing

I like to think that I’m a sort of poet for our times.

Our Time

Poet

Thinking

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Arriving

Shapes

Writing

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

His Love

Poetry

Reading Books

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.

Discovery

Encounters

Thinking

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Anxiety

Arriving

Being Human

Better Off Dead

Book

Brown

Childhood

Children

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Daughter

Discovery

Doe

Drawing

Enabling

Encounters

Energy

Faces

Facts

Fairy Tale

Fiction

Fine

Girl

Giving

Grateful

Heart

His Love

House

Ifs

Imagination

Inspiration

Intense Moments

Laughing

Left

Light

Littles

Machines

Males

Memorable

Memories

Moon

Mother

Narrative

Our Time

Oysters

Paper

People

Poet

Poetry

Prayer

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Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

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.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

I always say that I’ll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

I like to think that I’m a sort of poet for our times.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

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.

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