"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."
-Peter Davison
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"Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.“
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"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."
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"But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most."
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"And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet."
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"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."
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"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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"I write poetry in order to live more fully."
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"He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech."
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"Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold."
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"Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job."
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"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."
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"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion."
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