British - Poet | May 26, 1963 -
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
TimeFreeReadingThinkFeelGuilty
We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
VoiceNeedStillThinksBefore
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.
TimeNew YorkCityNameGoNew
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.
MyselfPoliticsMovingDirection
I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.
PointBreakWhereGotWanted
I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.
PeopleEnoughMightHad EnoughHad
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.
PoetryThinkLanguageThreeNever
The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
HeartBestMindOpenBig HeartBig
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.
HomeGratefulMeRoadProudLong
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
GoodMyselfDaySpaceYouSometimes
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.
MusicPeopleWorldBookFreeThree
We don't know where print is going.
KnowWhereGoingPrint
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