"I like poems that are little games."
-Peter Davison
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"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.“
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"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."
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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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