Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

I love playing with words and texture.

I like to write poetry.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

I'm really into poetry.

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Lyricists play with words.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

I read mostly poetry.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

I'm a poet.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.