Quote by Peter Davison
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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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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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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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. – Peter Davison

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. – T. S. Eliot

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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. – Peter Davison

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. Its not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. – Saul Williams

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