As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely - Carol Ann Duffy
Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely
- Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion. - Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
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. - Carol Ann Duffy
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 write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. - Carol Ann Duffy
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 - Carol Ann Duffy
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. - Carol Ann Duffy
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
What will you do now with the gift of your left life? - Carol Ann Duffy
What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
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. - Carol Ann Duffy
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.
Poetry and prayer are very similar. - Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
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