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Poetry Quotes by Peter Davison
- I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
- Poetry is composing for the breath.
- Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
- Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
- I like poems that are little games.
- Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with…
- The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it…
- But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
- And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
- There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
- But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in…
- Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming…
- It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
- My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which…
- They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need…
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