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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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Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with ones own understanding of how to understand the world. – Peter Davison

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Im as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, Im much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. – Marguerite Young

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Poets are candid. They tell us not under an abstract, but an individual form, in which reality breathes, what humanity thinks in the most secret recesses of its mind. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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