"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
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Simon Armitage
- "I’d never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I’ve 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."
- "People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book."
More In Poetry
- "I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it."― Carol Ann Duffy
- "Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life."― John Betjeman
- "Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn’t. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading."― Jack Prelutsky