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I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Carol Ann Duffy

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Carol Ann Duffy

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

Carol Ann Duffy

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Carol Ann Duffy

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Carol Ann Duffy

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

Carol Ann Duffy

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

Carol Ann Duffy

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

Carol Ann Duffy

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

Carol Ann Duffy

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

Carol Ann Duffy

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

Carol Ann Duffy

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

Carol Ann Duffy

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

Carol Ann Duffy

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

Carol Ann Duffy

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Carol Ann Duffy