"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."

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Source : "It's not poetry, it's a midlife crisis". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2001.

Simon Armitage

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“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.”
“We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.”
“The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.”
“You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.”
“We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.”
“... thou shall not steal, even by majority vote ...”
“When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.”

Source : Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.108, Penguin
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”

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