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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.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Feeling Form Just Language Less More Original Perfecting Poem Saying Text Texting Way

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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.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Bus Everyday Everyday Life Find Heart Just Life Memory News People People Say Poetry Say You Your

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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.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Anything Come Enough Experience Form Imagination Impression Inspiration Language Makes Memory Moment

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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.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Always Because Equal Fiction Good More Poetry Tends Things Unlike Which Win Women

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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Bathroom Books Everywhere Only Piles Poetry Read Stairs Way Write

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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: About Deal Feelings Find Images Intense Language Poets Trying Writing

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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.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Almost Lot Memorable Prayers Quite Quite A Lot Recite Short Something Them Think Write You I Think I Write

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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.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Arriving Before Just Poem Process See Shape Start Writing I See

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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.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Chance Doing English Experience Experienced Found Grew Had Heart House Inspirational Learn Liked Loved Lucky Miss Never Parents Poems Poetry Read School Teachers Up Us Very Walker Which Mr

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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: His Love Particularly Poems Read Still

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 23rd, 1955

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