Carol Ann Duffy Heart Quotations

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.

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

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.