Quote by Peter Davison
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is mem

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. – 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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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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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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Poetry is the energy of the soul made ink. – Terri Guillemets, “Lust & creativity,” 1995

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. – Gertrude Stein

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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witchs brew. – Anthony Hecht

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My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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