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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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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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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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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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For me, poetry is always a search for order. – Elizabeth Jennings

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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. – Lucille Clifton

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