Poetry Quote by Carol Ann Duffy — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.”

“Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.”

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

“Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.”

“We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night...”

“I heard a bird congratulating itself”

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks”

“She traced an imaginary line”