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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world

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
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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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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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