Carol Ann Duffy Quote

There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large impression. Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning


Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005.


There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large...

There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large...

There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large...

There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large...