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Simon Armitage
Poet Laureate. Mother, any distance is from a book about leaving home.
The quotes
3 quotes by or about Simon Armitage, in the order they happen.
Anchor. Kite.
Armitage · Mother, any distance · parents and children · growing up
Two words. She holds him down, he wants to fly. A tape measure between them.
the last one-hundredth of an inch
Armitage · Mother, any distance · parents and children · growing up
They measure a room together. The tape runs out. He is about to leave.
to fall or fly
Armitage · Mother, any distance · parents and children · growing up
The last words. He reaches for the sky and does not know which it will be.
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