This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm … - Simon Armitage

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I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

Simon Armitage

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.

Chose, Hands, Harm, Hatred, Home, Misfortune

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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.

Art, Kinds, Pass, Song, Tell, Two

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

Beautiful, Feet, Gifts, Lay, Light, Undiscovered

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

Miraculous, Ordinary

It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it’s kind of unkillable, poetry. It’s our most ancient artform and I think it’s more relevant today than ever, because it’s one person saying what they really believe.

Believe, Concentration, Saying, Thinking, Today

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.

Might, Place, Start, Way, World

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Judith Crist

just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.

Inarticulate, Lasts, Men, Obscenity, Violence

Price Pritchett

"You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-"* You'll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior code, on the need for some sort of ethical system. Even the crooks count on "honor among thieves," and countries actually wage war according to certain rules. On the job and in the rest of our day-to-day living, we each need a "code for the road. "

Countries, Country, Crooks, Jobs, Value, War

Hugh Hefner

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

Healthy, Lived, Mother, Numbers, Planning, Thinking

Jeffrey Tambor

I came to New York late; I was already past 30

Already, Came, Late, New York, Past, York

Nikola Tesla

I don't care that they stole my idea. . I care that they don't have any of their own

Care, Idea, Ideas, Inspirational, Stole