Carol Ann Duffy Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Writing, Feelings, Trying

• 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.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Memories, Inspiration, Imagination

  "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

• 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.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Technology, Feelings, Texting

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

• I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Thinking, Discovery, Encounters

  "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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