It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Quotes By Peter Davison
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There are so many things that poetry is about one of which is memory.
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But for me being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being...
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry but there are not so many...
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The more poetry you have in the head the more poetry you will understand...
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They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't...
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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The...
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody and it should be able to appeal to...
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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their...
Quotes About Poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
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Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.