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They need to learn poetry. They dont need to learn about poetry. T

They need to learn poetry. They dont need to learn about poetry. They dont need to be told how to interpret poetry. They dont need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. – 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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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. – 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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The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing. – Fernand Leger

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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. – William Blissett

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