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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 · Poetry

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Carol Ann Duffy

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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Carol Ann Duffy

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

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Carol Ann Duffy

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.

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Carol Ann Duffy

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.

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