Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet and playwright
Alive from: 1955-
Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)
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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.
Source: Interviewed in The Guardian, August 31, 2002. [1] -
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
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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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Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.Source: Valentine, from Mean Time (1993) -
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
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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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Light gatherer. You fell from a star
into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
mirrored in you,
and now you shine like a snowgirl,
a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
you squeal at and fly in.Source: The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002) -
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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Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.Source: Valentine, from Mean Time (1993) -
One saw I was alive. Loosened
his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.Source: Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars -
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
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Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.Source: Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990) -
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.
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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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