"Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen."
― Carol Ann Duffy
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Poetry
― Carol Ann Duffy
More From 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."
- "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."
- "It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
More In Poetry
- "Pound’s translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."― Robert Morgan
- "Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women’s voices regarding their own health care."― Sandra Fluke
- "People who don’t read seem to me mysterious. I don’t know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education."― Nina Bawden