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I think of him in certain lights, dawn, late afternoon,...
Carol Ann Duffy
I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
Carol Ann Duffy
I like to think that I’m a sort of poet for our times.
Carol Ann Duffy
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else’s. It’s like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn’t know was there, full of treasure and light.
Carol Ann Duffy
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
Carol Ann Duffy
C’est la vie. When I got ill, it hurt like hell. I bought a kidney with my credit card, then I got well. I keep Faust’s secret still –the clever, cunning, callous bastard didn’t have a soul to sell.
Carol Ann Duffy
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
Out of the forest I come with my flowers, singing, all alone.
Carol Ann Duffy
The living walk by the edge of a vast lake near the wise, drowned silence of the dead.
Carol Ann Duffy
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
Carol Ann Duffy
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
I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
Carol Ann Duffy
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
Carol Ann Duffy
Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.
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
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
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It’s like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.
Carol Ann Duffy
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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
I’ll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
Carol Ann Duffy
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
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 moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
Carol Ann Duffy
If we think of what’s up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it’s very frightening.
Carol Ann Duffy
Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.
Carol Ann Duffy
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Carol Ann Duffy
My prose is turgid, it just hasn’t got any energy.
Carol Ann Duffy
How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
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 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
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
Carol Ann Duffy
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
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
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
Carol Ann Duffy
But behind each player sttod a line of ghosts unable to win. Eve. Ashputtel. Marilyn Monroe. Rapunzel slashing wildly at her hair. Bessie Smith unloved and down and out. Bluebeard's wives, Henry VIII's, Snow White cursing the day she left the seven dwarves, Diana, Princess of Wales. The Sheepish Beast came in with a tray of schnapps at the end of the game and we stood for the toast -"fay wray"- then tossed our fiery drinks to the back of our crimson throats. Bad girls. Serious ladies. Mourning our dead.
Carol Ann Duffy
Feminism Quotes The World's Wife Quotes
I Remember Me There are not enough faces. Your own gapes back at you on someone else, but paler, then the moment when you see the next one and forget yourself. It must be dreams that makes us different, must be private cells inside a common skull.One has the other's look and has another memory. Despair stares out from tube-trains at itself running on the platform for the closing door.Everyone you meet is telling wordless barefaced truths.Sometimes the crowd yields one you put a name to, snapping fiction into fact. Mostly your lover passes in the rain and does not know you when you speak.
Carol Ann Duffy
Selected Poems Quotes
A whole wall was crimson, gold, aglow with booksWords, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the headWarm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.
Carol Ann Duffy
Little red cap Quotes
Bridgewater HallAgain, the endless northern rain between uslike a veil. Tonight, I know exactly where you are,which row, which seat. I stand at my back door.The light pollution blindfolds every star.I hold my hand out to the rain, simply to feel it, wetand literal. It spills and tumbles in my palm,a broken rosary. Devotion to you lets me seethe concert hall, lit up, the other side of town,then see you leave there, one of hundreds in the dark,your black umbrella raised. If rain were words, could talk,somehow, against your skin, I’d say look up, let it utteron your face. Now hear my love for you. Now walk.
Carol Ann Duffy
Rapture Quotes
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
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Little Red-CapAt childhood’s end, the houses petered outinto playing fields, the factory, allotmentskept, like mistresses, by kneeling married men, the silent railway line, the hermit’s caravan, till you came at last to the edge of the woods. It was there that I first clapped eyes on the wolf. He stood in a clearing, reading his verse out loud in his wolfy drawl, a paperback in his hairy paw, red wine staining his bearded jaw. What big earshe had! What big eyes he had! What teeth!In the interval, I made quite sure he spotted me, sweet sixteen, never been, babe, waif, and bought me a drink, my first. You might ask why. Here’s why. Poetry.The wolf, I knew, would lead me deep into the woods,away from home, to a dark tangled thorny placelit by the eyes of owls. I crawled in his wake,my stockings ripped to shreds, scraps of red from my blazersnagged on twig and branch, murder clues. I lost both shoesbut got there, wolf’s lair, better beware. Lesson one that night, breath of the wolf in my ear, was the love poem.I clung till dawn to his thrashing fur, forwhat little girl doesn’t dearly love a wolf?Then I slid from between his heavy matted pawsand went in search of a living bird – white dove –which flew, straight, from my hands to his hope mouth.One bite, dead. How nice, breakfast in bed, he said,licking his chops. As soon as he slept, I crept to the backof the lair, where a whole wall was crimson, gold, aglow with books.Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head,warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.But then I was young – and it took ten years in the woods to tell that a mushroomstoppers the mouth of a buried corpse, that birdsare the uttered thought of trees, that a greying wolfhowls the same old song at the moon, year in, year out,season after season, same rhyme, same reason. I took an axeto a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmonto see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolfas he slept, one chop, scrotum to throat, and saw the glistening, virgin white of my grandmother’s bones.I filled his old belly with stones. I stitched him up.Out of the forest I come with my flowers, singing, all alone.
Carol Ann Duffy
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If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Just as the body is shaped for movement, the mind is shaped for poetry. Rhythm and rhyme aid recall. Poems are always rhythmic but not always rhyming. In the same way that melody became rather suspect in twentieth-century classical music – atonal fractures being the mark of seriousness – so Modernism re-branded rhyme as pastoral, lovesick, feminine, superficial. Fine for kids and tea-towels, not fine for the muscular combative voice of the urban poet. It has taken a long time for rhyme to return to favour. Rap, and the rise of performance poetry, has been part of that return.
Carol Ann Duffy
The World's Wife: Picador Classic Quotes
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.
Carol Ann Duffy
It took ten yearsIn the woods to tell that a mushroomStoppers the mouth of a buried corpse, that birdsAre the uttered thought of trees, that a greying wolfHowls the same old song at the moon, year in, year outSeason after season, same rhyme, same reason.
Carol Ann Duffy
Little red cap Quotes The World's Wife Quotes
Frau Freud Ladies, for argument’s sake, let us say that I’ve seen my fair share of ding-a-ling, member and jock, of todger and nudger and percy and cock, of tackle, of three-for-a-bob, of willy and winky; in fact, you could say, I’m as au fait with Hunt-the-Salami as Ms M. Lewinsky – equally sick up to here with the beef bayonet, the pork sword, the saveloy, love-muscle, night-crawler, dong, the dick, prick, dipstick and wick, the rammer, the slammer, the rupert, the shlong. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve no axe to grind with the snake in the trousers, the wife’s best friend, the weapon, the python – I suppose what I mean is, ladies, dear ladies, the average penis – not pretty . . . the squint of its envious solitary eye . . . one’s feeling of pity . . .
Carol Ann Duffy
The World's Wife: Picador Classic Quotes
The Latin names of plants blur like belief.
Carol Ann Duffy
Rapture Quotes
I took an axeTo a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmonTo see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolfAs he slept.
Carol Ann Duffy
Little red cap Quotes
No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.
Carol Ann Duffy
Beauty is fame.
Carol Ann Duffy
Poets sing our human music for us.
Carol Ann Duffy
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