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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to

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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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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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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I have epiphanies all the time, because Im always thinking. Im a thinker. Im always writing poetry, Im always coming to conclusions. – Chrisette Michele

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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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I have experienced healing through other writers poetry, but theres no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, Ill write a bad poem. – Marilyn Hacker

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