Poetry is composing for the breath.
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They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.Peter Davison
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
Peter Davison
And one of the odd things about it is that poetry is now fleeing from the academies to another institution, which is the performance poetry.
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
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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The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
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