Quote by Peter Davison
Poetry is composing for the breath. - Peter Davison

Poetry is composing for the breath. – 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

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

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. – John Denham

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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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Ive got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. – Martin C. Smith

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