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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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We dont attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. – James Laughlin

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Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. – Thom Gunn

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. – George Oppen

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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. – W. H. Auden

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