The poem is a form of texting. . . it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a … - Carol Ann Duffy

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It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.

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.

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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

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For 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.

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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 write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

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Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

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