If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. Simon Armitage choosehuddersfieldmake Change image and share on social
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. Guy Johnson askbirthdaymother Change image and share on social
I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new. Patti Smith destructivejimlove Change image and share on social
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. Jacques Derrida africanbadhooligan Change image and share on social
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep. Patti Smith asleepdutyfelt Change image and share on social
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. P. J. Harvey assignmentcreativedraw share on social
I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable. Marv Levy bookbroadhumorous share on social
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. Manuel Puig beautyfaulknerpoetry Change image and share on social
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. John Millington Synge claypoetryroot Change image and share on social
