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Simon Armitage Quotes
Simon Armitage
British
Poet
Born:
May 26
,
1963
Book
Going
Home
Me
People
World
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Christina Rossetti
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Samuel Butler
Thomas Babington Macaulay
We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
Simon Armitage
Before
Voice
Still
Speaks
Thinks
Need
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
Simon Armitage
Book
People
Example
Smell
Poetry
Feel
Like
For Example
Read
Who
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.
Simon Armitage
Language
Three
Active
Every
Think
Books
Churning
Slim
Out
Tried
Something
Rather
Poetry
Never
Volumes
Between
Content
Always
Been
Years
Covers
Than
Just
Just Something
Ingredient
Really
Appears
Thin
Four
Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.
Simon Armitage
Home
Me
Grateful
Long
Has-Been
Both
Road
Town
Like
Occasionally
Felt
Always
Proud
Still
Been
Behind
Home Town
Travelling
I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
Simon Armitage
Time
Free
Reading
Think
Guilty
Something
Free Time
Feel
Know
Because
Again
Against
Really
Should
Measure
Even
Novel
Homer
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
Politics
Myself
Poems
Direction
Written
Always
Stopped
Moving
Really
Engaged
Found
Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.
Simon Armitage
Buy
Music
Book
People
World
Will
Free
Three
Somebody
Everyone
Way
Kindle
See
Able
Someone
Could
Shared
His
Years
Author
Decade
Crack
Cracked
Same
Then
Worked
Files
We don't know where print is going.
Simon Armitage
Know
Print
Going
Where
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