British - Poet | December 23, 1955 -
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
Carol Ann Duffy
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I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
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The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
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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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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 always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
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Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
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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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