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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways

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 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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