Carol Ann Duffy - Child Quotes

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When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Carol Ann Duffy

One saw I was alive. Loosened
his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.

Carol Ann Duffy

I don't like poets to be like priests, as though you were hearing the Mass: I know where that's coming from because I went to Mass as a child.

Carol Ann Duffy