Simon Armitage's Quote - People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and t

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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and t

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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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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Poetry mends a broken arrow then shoots us in the heart with it. – Terri Guillemets, “Love, life, poetry,” 2016

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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I dont think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. – Robert Morgan

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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. – Laurie Lee

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Only you can set you free. – Living Colour, “Cult of Personality”

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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. – Harvey Cox

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