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 grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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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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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.
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Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
