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.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

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.

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.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.