I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Carol Ann DuffyChristmas 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 DuffyFor me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
Carol Ann Duffy