"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."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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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.“
-Carol Ann Duffy
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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."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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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."
-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."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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"Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen."
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"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
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"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"
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"The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy."
-Janet Street-Porter
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