Simon Armitage Quotes
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I need to work to feel well.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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I would read all day if I could.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
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I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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What sort of girls do i like? - They are all angels.
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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
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Don't do anything to stop a woman from flying; let fate take its course.
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
