Simon Armitage
Poet
1963-05-26
Quotes by Simon Armitage
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And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.
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Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.
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And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.
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Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.
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It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.
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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.
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I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.
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