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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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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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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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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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. – Amy Clampitt

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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. – Seamus Heaney

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