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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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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. – Simon Armitage

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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Poetry is creative; to be a poet is to remake the universe. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg

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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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