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Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British Poet
Born: Dec 23, 1955
Always Language Life People Think You
Related authors: Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Bibesco George Herbert Helen Dunmore John Donne Lord Byron Samuel Butler Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
Life News You Heart Memory People Everyday Life Everyday Say Find People Say Poetry Just Bus Your
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
Together Grateful Marriage People Be Grateful Just Be Would Civil About Poem Wedding Inspired Write Idea Partnership Felt Coming Just Ignore Event Royal
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
People Language Young Way Able Poem Form Literary Young People Century Connect Deep Play
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
Bathroom Books Way Everywhere Only Poetry Write Read Piles Stairs
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
Inspirational Heart Experience School Parents Poems Poetry Never Had Miss Liked House Learn Read Doing Up Very Walker Experienced Grew Loved Which Us Teachers English Lucky Found Chance
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
Think Other Way See Poetry New Deal Enabling Subject Subjects New Way Curriculum Children Them Help
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. Carol Ann Duffy
Space Mine Bit Write Between Know Sounds Sinister Childhood Ella
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times. Carol Ann Duffy
Poet Think Our Like Sort Times
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. Carol Ann Duffy
Writing Language Feelings Find About Poets Deal Trying Intense Images
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries. Carol Ann Duffy
Theatre City Favourite Edinburgh Doing Lot Children Galleries
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
Good Women Win Unlike More Poetry Tends Equal Because Always Fiction Which Things
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
Life You Light Living Else Finding Someone Seems Previous Previous Life Like Know House Child Room Your Full Suddenly Treasure
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have. Carol Ann Duffy
Day You Every Day Gift Matter Problems Every Child
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. Carol Ann Duffy
Energy Prose Got Any Just
I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety. Carol Ann Duffy
Anxiety Think Our Resources Dangers Abuse Different Planet Now
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening. Carol Ann Duffy
Change Water Think Over Climate Climate Change Up Very Frightening Wars
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
Best You Language Feeling Think Must Find Constantly Something Something New Thrilling Poets Write Written Feel New Like Still Discovered Encounter Things
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
Writing Before See Poem Shape Arriving Just Process Start
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. Carol Ann Duffy
Life Mother My Life Always Child Being Wanted Central Thing
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away. Carol Ann Duffy
You Own Back Those Hidden Having Had Takes Parts Child Childhood Your Away

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