Carol Ann Duffy Quotes & Sayings
32 most famous Carol Ann Duffy quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 68 year old English poet born on Dec 23, 1955.
“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.”
“I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Poetry and prayer are very similar.”
“I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.”
“Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.”
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