Simon Armitage

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

— Simon Armitage

“The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I…

— Simon Armitage

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town…

— Simon Armitage

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

— Simon Armitage

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred…

— Simon Armitage

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

— Simon Armitage

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

— Simon Armitage

It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about…

— Simon Armitage

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square…

— Simon Armitage

“I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.”

— Simon Armitage

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

— Simon Armitage

“Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.”

— Simon Armitage

You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts…

— Simon Armitage

“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up…

— Simon Armitage

It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and…

— Simon Armitage

I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of…

— Simon Armitage

“...the kind of music that God must hearing, no matter how busy or distracted, because it comes out of hundreds of square…

— Simon Armitage

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you…

— Simon Armitage

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and…

— Simon Armitage

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've…

— Simon Armitage

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin.…

— Simon Armitage

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

— Simon Armitage

“They said we probably wouldn't be let back into Canada, suggesting we'd just have to live forever on the bridge, cadging fruit…

— Simon Armitage

“God help us both if this is summer. The sun shines all day and all night but it has no warmth, no…

— Simon Armitage

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

— Simon Armitage