"I like poems that are little games."
-Peter Davison
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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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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
-Leonard Cohen
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
-Robert Frost
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
-John Keats
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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