Simon Armitage Quotes
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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.
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I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.
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And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
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The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.
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This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
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The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
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We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
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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 the hand that chose it.
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As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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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 poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.