Quotes by Simon Armitage - Page 1

We don't know where print is going.
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Print
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The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.
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Miraculous
Ordinary
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We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
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Needs
Thinking
Voice
Speaks
Thinks
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This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
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Karma
Misfortunes
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The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
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Big Heart
Heart
Mind
Open Mind
Towns
Open
Large
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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Book
People
Smell
For Example
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And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
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War
Hands
Loss
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I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.
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Had Enough
Might
People
Simon
Wondered
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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.
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Engaged
Found
Moving
Politics Myself Always
Direction
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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.
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Home
Hands
Hatred
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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.
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Might
Way
World
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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
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Beautiful
Feet
Light
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Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.
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Felt
Grateful
Home Town
Proud
Home Always Me
Home Me Long
Behind
Home Long Me
Occasionally
Road
Travelling
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I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
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Free Time
Guilty
Homer
Measure
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It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.
Simon Armitage / Poet
Doors
Inviting
Staying
Throwing
Window
Home World Me
Closed
Local
Reminds
The Doors
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As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.
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Art
Song
Two
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Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.
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Doe
Hands
Weight
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I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the Examiner for the first time.
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New York
Zippers
Cities
Squares
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I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.
Simon Armitage / Poet
New York
First Time
Middle
New York City
Times Square
Time City New
Quite
Electronic
Round
Saw
Sign
Square
Stood
Thrilled
York
Zipper
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Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".
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Dad
Handwriting
Signatures
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I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
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Space
Each Day
Tasks
Writing
Begin
Downstairs
Picked
Task
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I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
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Active
Churning
Slim
Appears
Content
Covers
Ingredient
Just Something
Thin
Volumes
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Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.
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Book
Files
People
Years
Author
Crack
Decade
Shared
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It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it’s kind of unkillable, poetry. It’s our most ancient artform and I think it’s more relevant today than ever, because it’s one person saying what they really believe.
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Believe
Thinking
Today
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I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.
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War
Ironic
Meditation
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