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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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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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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. – John Colville

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My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – Philip Levine

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