Carol Ann Duffy Quotes - Page 2

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.

Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

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.

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

Poets sing our human music for us.

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

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.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?