Quotes about Carol Ann Duffy

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living...

#Carol Ann Duffy

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for...

#Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

#Carol Ann Duffy

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

#Carol Ann Duffy

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying...

#Carol Ann Duffy

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more...

#Carol Ann Duffy

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

#Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers:...

#Carol Ann Duffy

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds...

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I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources...

#Carol Ann Duffy

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

#Carol Ann Duffy

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

#Carol Ann Duffy