Quotes by : Carol Ann Duffy

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

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

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

The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seaswhere we would....

But behind each player sttod a line of ghosts unable to win. Eve. Ashputtel. Marilyn Monroe. Rapunzel....

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way....

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

Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.We find an....

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage....

I found the words at the back of a drawer,wrapped in black cloth, like three ringsslipped from a dead....