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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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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – 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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While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin

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