Quotes by : Carol Ann Duffy

Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.....

Poets sing our human music for us.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience....

Better off dead than giving in not taking what you want.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or....

For this,let gardens grow, where beelines end,sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia;where bees pray....

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

At childhood’s end, the houses petered outinto playing fields, the factory, allotmentskept, like mistresses,....

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

I'm not the first or the lastto stand on a hillock,watching the man she marriedprove to the worldhe's....