British - Poet | December 23, 1955 -
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
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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.
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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.
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Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
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Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.
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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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When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
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Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
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