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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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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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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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Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. – Marilyn Hacker

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I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine

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Poetry says the things that I cant say. I read a lot, but I never write it. – Trevor McDonald

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The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealisms anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. – Graham Joyce

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