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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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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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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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. – Jack Prelutsky

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I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. – Robert Morgan

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. – George William Curtis

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I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry. – Stephen Colbert

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