Top 32 Quotes by 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.

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.