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Better off dead than giving in not taking what you want.

Carol Ann Duffy

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Carol Ann Duffy
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: December 23
Author
Playwright
Poet
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Glasgow
Scotland
Carol Ann Duffy
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Giving
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
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I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
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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.
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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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Poetry and prayer are very similar.
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What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
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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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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
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Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
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She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.
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I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.
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Poets sing our human music for us.
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The stars are filming us for no one.
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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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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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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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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
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What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?
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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy
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