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.

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

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.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

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.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.