In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
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But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.Peter Davison
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Peter Davison
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
Peter Davison
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
Peter Davison
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
Peter Davison
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're 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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