“ 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
“ People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. 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 somethi… Simon Armitage
“ This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it. Simon Armitage
“ 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
“ The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of… Simon Armitage
“ And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand. Simon Armitage
“ Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart. Simon Armitage
