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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
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I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
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Poetry and prayer are very similar.
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I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
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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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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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Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
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The stars are filming us for no one.
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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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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.
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What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
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How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
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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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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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Better off dead than giving in not taking what you want.
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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 the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
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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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Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
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I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
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