Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

About Carol Ann Duffy:

Dame Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position.
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I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

Carol Ann Duffy

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

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

Carol Ann Duffy

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

Carol Ann Duffy

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

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Carol Ann Duffy

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

Carol Ann Duffy

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

Carol Ann Duffy

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Carol Ann Duffy

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

Carol Ann Duffy

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Carol Ann Duffy

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

Carol Ann Duffy

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

Carol Ann Duffy

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

Carol Ann Duffy

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

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.

Carol Ann Duffy

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

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poets sing our human music for us.

Carol Ann Duffy

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would.

Carol Ann Duffy

Author Bio

  • NameCarol Ann Duffy
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornDecember 23, 1955
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Author
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; PEN Pinter Prize; Cholmondeley Award; Eric Gregory Award