Simon Armitage Quotes

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• This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
• The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.
• We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
• 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 always stopped myself.
• I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.
• The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
• I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good…
• Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked…
• People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
• If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose…
• I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt…
• You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and…
• And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
• It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But…
• This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to…
• It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home…

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