Quote by Peter Davison
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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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because theyre embarrassed that I write it or theyre embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. – Peter Davison

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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didnt think so. – Norman MacCaig

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape? – John C. Ransom

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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