Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Love’s language starts, stops, starts;
the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.

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.

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would.