I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. -Peter Davison

 

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.


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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.

Peter Davison
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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 to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

Peter Davison
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If they want to know anything about poetry, they simply have to go out and learn it. -Peter Davison
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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.

Peter Davison
192

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Peter Davison
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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. -Peter Davison
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But nobody can write poetry all the time.

Peter Davison
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