Carol Ann Duffy Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Christmas, Father, Believe

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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• If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  War, Thinking, Water

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• I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Children, Thinking, Enabling

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Prayer, Heartless, Helping

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• I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Book, Writing, Way

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Thinking, Anxiety, Abuse

  "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Poets sing our human music for us.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Poet, Humans

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• I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Mother, Children, Being A Mother

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

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• If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Wedding, Grateful, Writing

  "U.K. Appoints First Female Poet Laureate". www.foxnews.com. May 01, 2009.

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Children, Childhood

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Children, Matter, Problem

  "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Writing, Poetry

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• I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Poetry, His Love, Reading Books

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Book, Writing, Fairy Tale

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Hate, Gold, Want

  Carol Ann Duffy (2010). “Love Poems”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Doe, Fine, Ifs

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• How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Perfect, Evening, April

  Carol Ann Duffy (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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