Famous Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

  • I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way. – Carol Ann Duffy

    I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.– Carol Ann Duffy

  • Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood. – Carol Ann Duffy

    Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.– Carol Ann Duffy

  • I’m not the first or the lastto stand on a hillock,watching the man she marriedprove to the worldhe’s a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pi – Carol Ann Duffy

    I’m not the first or the lastto stand on a hillock,watching the man she marriedprove to the worldhe’s a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pi– Carol Ann Duffy

  • 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

    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