3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy 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.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy 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.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy 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.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy 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.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy 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.
