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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to reme

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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They need to learn poetry. They dont need to learn about poetry. They dont need to be told how to interpret poetry. They dont need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. – Peter Davison

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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. – J. K. Rowling

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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. – John Drinkwater

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