We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

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.

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

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.

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.

I have graduated to the extent of not asking what is happening in my life because I trust the maker(God).

Be the light

My hobby is my job. it's a jobby!

As an actress, I'm an emotional person.

There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.