Best Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy (Top 10)
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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
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I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
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What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
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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.
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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.
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She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.
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Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments テつュ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing
with emotion.
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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems
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Poets sing our human music for us.
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More Carol Ann Duffy Quotes
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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
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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