"People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book." ― Simon Armitage Topic(s): Poetry More From Simon Armitage "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." "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." More In Poetry "Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."― John Masefield "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."― Albert Einstein "I wrote things for the school’s newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry."― Stephen Colbert