Zitate und Sprüche von Carol Ann Duffy

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.

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.

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.

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.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

You can leave Glasgow, but it will never leave you.

Glasgow is a great city.

One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, "I can't do that in Cranhill."

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Glasgow - which is kinda the same.

Mr. President, Ukraine did not "start" this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.