Top 32 Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

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

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.

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

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

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.

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

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

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.

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

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