Top 32 Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

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