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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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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – 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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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and its another world. Its filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people. – Flea

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“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

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