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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.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Carol Ann Duffy
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: December 23
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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
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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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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 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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Poetry and prayer are very similar.
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How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
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What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
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Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
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The stars are filming us for no one.
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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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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy
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Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
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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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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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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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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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Better off dead than giving in not taking what you want.
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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.
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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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Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely
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