It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we… — Quoted

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

Peter Davison · Poetry

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Peter Davison

Poetry is composing for the breath.

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

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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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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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