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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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" Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. "

" How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? "

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" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

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" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "

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Carol Ann Duffy

" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "

" The crown of literature is poetry. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" 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

" In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. "

" One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. "

" I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us. "

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" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "

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" Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. "

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