Best quotes by Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry
Checkout quotes by Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry
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‟ 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.
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‟ Poetry and prayer are very similar.
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‟ It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
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‟ I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
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‟ I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
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‟ 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.
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‟ I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
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‟ Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
- Carol Ann Duffy