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Simon Armitage quotes: The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

Simon Armitage quotes: God help us both if this is summer.The sun shines all day and all nightbut it has no warmth, no light, no colour.

God help us both if this is summer.
The sun shines all day and all night
but it has no warmth, no light, no colour.

Simon Armitage quotes: I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

Simon Armitage quotes: We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

Simon Armitage quotes: I'm on page 12 of 80 of Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus: Waves were never the tide but ripples, spawned by moon-coloured ships of war.

I'm on page 12 of 80 of Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus: Waves were never the tide but ripples, spawned by moon-coloured ships of war.

Simon Armitage quotes: The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

Simon Armitage quotes: In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

Simon Armitage quotes: Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

Simon Armitage quotes: You get up one day and somebody has taken one of the mountains away

You get up one day and somebody has taken one of the mountains away

Simon Armitage quotes: We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose.

We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose.

Simon Armitage quotes: I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.

I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.

Simon Armitage quotes: And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

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

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

Simon Armitage quotes: I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

Simon Armitage quotes: Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.
Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

Simon Armitage quotes: We don't know where print is going.

We don't know where print is going.