Quote by Simon Armitage
Id never really been content with just churning out these slim vol

Id never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. Ive 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. – Simon Armitage

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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. – Simon Armitage

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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. – Simon Armitage

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