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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison

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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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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. – Jacques Derrida

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. – Eugenio Montale

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