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“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”

Simon Armitage

'*', from Book Of Matches.

“Lifetimes went past. With the critical mass
of hardly more than the thought of a thought
I kept on, headlong, to vanishing point.
I looked for an end, for some dimension
to hold hard and resist. But I still exist.”

Simon Armitage

'Incredible', from The Universal Home Doctor.

“You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet”

Simon Armitage

“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.”

Simon Armitage

'November', from Zoom.

“Right here you made an angel of yourself,
free-falling backwards into last night's snow,
indenting a straight, neat, crucified shape,
then flapping your arms, one stroke, a great bird,
to leave the impression of wings. It worked.”

Simon Armitage

'A Glory', from Cloudcuckooland.

“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.”

Simon Armitage

Source: The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation

Simon Armitage Quotes

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

Simon Armitage

'The Shout', from The Universal Home Doctor.

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

Simon Armitage

from Convergence of the Twain.

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

Simon Armitage

'Homecoming', from Cloudcuckooland.

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

Simon Armitage

'Poem', from Kid.

“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.”

Simon Armitage

'Gooseberry Season', from Kid.

“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.”

Simon Armitage

'Man with a Golf Ball Heart', from The Dead Sea Poems.

“Mother, any distance greater than a single span
requires a second pair of hands.”

Simon Armitage

'*', from Book Of Matches.

“it says NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS
but it don't say why.”

Simon Armitage

'Killing Time (Millenium Poem)', from Killing Time.

“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…”

Simon Armitage

'*', from Book Of Matches.

“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.”

Simon Armitage

'Crux', from Cloudcuckooland.

“Ignite the flares, connect the phones, wind all the clocks;
the sun goes rusty like a medal in its box -
collect it from the loft. Peg out the stars,
replace the bulbs of Jupiter and Mars.
A man like that takes something with him when he dies,
but he has wept the coins that rested on his eyes,
eased out the stopper from the mouthpiece of the cave,
exhumed his own white body from the grave.”

Simon Armitage

'*', from Book Of Matches.

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