The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
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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
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
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Peter Davison
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 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
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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