More From Carol Ann Duffy
- "Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen."
- "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 have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it."
More In Poetry
- "The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry."― Lafcadio Hearn
- "I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time."― Robert Hass
- "In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."― Danielle Steel