Carol Ann Duffy Quotes about Children

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.

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.

Carol Ann Duffy

Children, Light, House

"Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2005.

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

Children, Thinking, Enabling

"Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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

Carol Ann Duffy

Mother, Children, Being A Mother

"Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

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

Carol Ann Duffy

Children, Childhood

"Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.