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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody

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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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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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 poet illuminates us by the flames in which his being passes away. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at how the writer with whom youre working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. – Marilyn Hacker

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