Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

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

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

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

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 still read Donne, particularly his love poems

The stars are filming us for no one.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

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.

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

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

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

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