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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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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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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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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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I love writing poetry because poetry can be anything you want it to be — just like daydreaming. There are no rules except those in your heart and your own pen. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine

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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who dont go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. Its always so. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world! – Terri Guillemets

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I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse –I will not retreat a single inch –and I will be heard! – William Lloyd Garrison

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