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Simon Armitage, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.
         



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This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is Simon Armitage, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey. This quote is about travel, nonfiction, humour,.