that for her, to read a Shakespearian sonnet (the sonnet, she said, is "perfect" for a love poem, a "little black dress") is "almost to revisit being in love. You're dragged back in not through memory, but through language."But really, for Duffy, "all poems are love poems. What poetry does is add something to the world. It gives, sometimes it can change the way we see the world. Poetry can offer consolation, it can be angry and potent, but all these poems, these moments in language, come from love," she said.
from The Guardian: Love poetry is hardest to write, says new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy
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