Nonfiction Quote by Simon Armitage

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

— 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 has been…

— 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 comes home…

— 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 making a…

— Simon Armitage

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

— 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 of gravity…

— Simon Armitage