Quote by Peter Davison
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers

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

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

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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because theyre embarrassed that I write it or theyre embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. – Peter Davison

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. Youll have that readership. Keep going until you know youre doing work thats worthy. And then see what happens. Thats my advice. – Philip Levine

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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

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