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

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

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

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.

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

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

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.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

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

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

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.

There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

Physics changes, but reality stays the same

Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.