Best Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy (Top 10)

  1. I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
  2. Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
  3. I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
  4. What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. I still read Donne, particularly his love poems
  10. Poets sing our human music for us.

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