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Quote by Peter Davison
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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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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I am grateful for – though I cant keep up with – the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. – A. R. Ammons

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. – William Butler Yeats

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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. – Joni Mitchell

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