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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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Carol Ann Duffy
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: December 23
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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 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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Poets sing our human music for us.
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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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It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
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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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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
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I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
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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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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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What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?
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