Simon Armitage Quotes
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 and light at your miniature feet
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.
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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.
And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of 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 to the hand that chose it.
Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.
And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.
Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
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.