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"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."

Carol Ann Duffy on Inspirational

More quotes about Inspirational

• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

  Helen Keller on Inspirational

• "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

  Aristotle Onassis on Inspirational

• "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

  Robert Louis Stevenson on Inspirational

• "Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell."

  Bill Copeland on Inspirational

• "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

  Joseph Campbell on Inspirational

More quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

• "The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form."

• "If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it."

• "I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."

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

• "It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."