Quote by Peter Davison
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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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. – Peter Davison

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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. – Robert Frost

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The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

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Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

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