More From Carol Ann Duffy
- "I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way."
- "I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "It’s not easy to define poetry."― Bob Dylan
- "In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry."― Andrew Motion
- "I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that."― James Dickey