Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

Shakespeare is universal.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

I'd love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

My parents are big Shakespeare fans.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.