"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.“

-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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"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 think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way."

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