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
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  1. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather.... - Unknown

  3. Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need... - Janet Fitch

  4. Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton

  5. ...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them. - Leo Buscaglia

More Quotes By Simon Armitage
  1. Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

  2. And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

  3. The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

  4. Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

  5. 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.

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