If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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However, in 1950 there might have been 150 books of poetry published in a year. In 1997, there are probably about 1,500.Peter Davison
But nobody can write poetry all the time.
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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
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It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
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Very often, what I find newest is something very old. It's just a little jingle, a little rhythm, a little turn, a little trope.
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And I watch my friends, most of whom are in academic life because most poets have to be in academic life, there aren't so many other ways to survive.
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