"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

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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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"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."

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"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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"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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"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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"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."

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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

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