The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
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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
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
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
Peter Davison
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
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.
Peter Davison
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
Peter Davison
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