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Peter Davison | poetry

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can’t do in prose.

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Peter Davison poetry

Peter Davison | poetry

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

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Peter Davison poetry

Peter Davison | poetry

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 is that makes people write poetry at all.

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Peter Davison poetry

Peter Davison | poetry

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

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Peter Davison poetry

Peter Davison | poetry

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 which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

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Peter Davison poetry

Peter Davison | poetry

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

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Peter Davison poetry

Peter Davison | poetry

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

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Peter Davison poetry

Peter Davison | poetry

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 nature of poetry, as such.

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Peter Davison poetry

Peter Davison | poetry

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 to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

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Peter Davison | poetry

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

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