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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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. – William Bolitho

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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