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Carol Ann Duffy - From the Children category:
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have. (Carol Ann Duffy)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Children category:
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)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Creativity category:
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)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Discovery category:
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 - From the Emotion category:
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. (Carol Ann Duffy)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Experiments category:
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. (Carol Ann Duffy)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Gender category:
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 - From the Ideas category:
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 - From the Inspiration category:
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)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Language category:
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)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Methodology category:
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)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Opposites category:
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. (Carol Ann Duffy)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Poetry category:
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)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Poetry category:
I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem. (Carol Ann Duffy)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Prayer category:
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 - From the Technology category:
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)
Carol Ann Duffy - From the Work category:
Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely. (Carol Ann Duffy)
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