Quotes by : Carol Ann Duffy

Give me, you said, on our very first night,the forest. I rose from the bed and went out,and when I returned,....

Poets sing our human music for us.

Love’s language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.

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

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

Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke....

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....

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