Best quotes by Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry

  • 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
  • Poetry and prayer are very similar.
    - 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.
    - 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.
    - Carol Ann Duffy
  • I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
    - Carol Ann Duffy
  • 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.
    - Carol Ann Duffy
  • 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.
    - Carol Ann Duffy
  • Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
    - Carol Ann Duffy