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Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason

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 ones own understanding of how to understand the world. – Peter Davison

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

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

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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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