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Simon Armitage Quotes

born 1963 England

Simon Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist from Huddersfield. A selection of his poetry forms part of the GCSE syllabus for English Literature.

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Random Simon Armitage quote

11 quotes

"Think, two things on their own and both at once."

"Boy with the name and face I don't remember,
you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you."

"Here's how they rated him when the looked back:
sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that."

"All land lines are down.
Reports of mobile phones
are false. One half-excoriated Apple Mac still quotes the Dow Jones."

"That heart had been an apple once, they reckoned. Green.
They had a scheme to plant an apple there again
beginning with a pip, but he rejected it."

"I've made out a will: I'm leaving myself
to the National Health. I'm sure they can use
the jellies and tubes and syrups and glues..."

"We walk to the ward from the badly parked car
with your grandma taking four short steps to our two.
We have brought her here to die and we know it."

"In a life, most of us turn no more than 45 degrees. Not much
compared to those who turn full-circle in the slighest breeze
or those who totally uncoil, but enough in the end
to tell a bag of diamonds from a sack of coal."

"Where does the hand become the wrist?
where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
razor's edge
between something and nothing, between
one and the other."

'*', from Book Of Matches.

"My party piece:
I strike, then from the moment when the matchstick
conjures up its light, to when the brightness moves
beyond its means, and dies, I say the story
of my life"

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simon Armitage (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.