Simon Armitage Quotes

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

~ Simon Armitage

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

~ 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 the self leaching away into the cloud.

~ 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

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