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Mrs Icarus
I'm not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock,
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.
The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wife
which made me worse. I howled in my cell.
If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell? -- Carol Ann Duffy
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A whole wall was crimson, gold, aglow with books
Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head
Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Love's language starts, stops, starts;
the right words flowing or clotting in the heart. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I took an axe
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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It took ten years
In the woods to tell that a mushroom
Stoppers the mouth of a buried corpse, that birds
Are the uttered thought of trees, that a greying wolf
Howls the same old song at the moon, year in, year out
Season after season, same rhyme, same reason. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid steams in your china cup.
Or when you're away or at work,
I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip,
as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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What will you do now with the gift of your left life? -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Poetry and prayer are very similar. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I'm not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock,
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock.

- Mrs Icarus -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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Poets sing our human music for us. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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The Latin names of plants blur like belief. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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The stars are filming us for no one. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love? -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening? -- Carol Ann Duffy
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along with the rest of our helpless world; and, O, if you could, you would, where lovers walked, sell off trees and not give a flying fuck for the muted mausoleums of the bees. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety. -- Carol Ann Duffy
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I think of him in certain lights, dawn, late afternoon,... -- Carol Ann Duffy