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What did Peter Davison say about Poetry?

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  • I like poems that are little games.
  • 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.
  • I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

What are the top most famous Poetry quotes by Peter Davison?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Poetry by Peter Davison.

  • I like poems that are little games.
  • 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.
  • I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
  • Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
  • Poetry is composing for the breath.
  • Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
  • Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
  • 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.
  • They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
  • 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.