Simon Armitage Quotes
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
Quotes to Explore
-
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
-
When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
-
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
-
I need to work to feel well.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
-
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-
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.
-
I would read all day if I could.
-
I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
-
I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
-
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.
-
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
-
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.
-
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
-
Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.
-
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-
If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.
-
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
-
Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience.
-
Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that...
-
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
