Famous Quotes

"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."

Carol Ann Duffy on Wedding

More quotes about Wedding

• "The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

  Barbara de Angelis on Wedding

• "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher."

  Socrates on Wedding

• "It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."

  Robert Frost on Wedding

• "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."

  Groucho Marx on Wedding

• "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

  Oliver Wendell Holmes on Wedding

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."

• "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."

• "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."