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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
I See
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" I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. "
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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. "
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" If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening. "
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" My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. "
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" Poetry and prayer are very similar. "
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" I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. "
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" I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem. "
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" Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. "
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" I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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