I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes poet sort time
Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely. Carol Ann Duffy 3pm9amintensely Change image and share on social
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. Carol Ann Duffy audenhappenmake Change image and share on social
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. Carol Ann Duffy bitechildhoodella Change image and share on social
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art. James Fenton abstruseageart share on social
I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year. Jacqueline Novogratz bartendereconomicsinternational Change image and share on social
James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. Ken Follett amusebondcigarette Change image and share on social