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Peter Davison

"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."

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"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."

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Peter Davison
"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."

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Peter Davison
"I like poems that are complex."

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Peter Davison
"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

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Peter Davison
"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."

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Peter Davison
"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."

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Peter Davison
"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."

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Peter Davison
"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."

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Peter Davison
"Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers."

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Peter Davison
"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."

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Peter Davison
"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."

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Aberjhani

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Aberjhani

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Aberjhani

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Aberjhani

"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."

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Aberjhani

"Deep down there is a rose in every heart."

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Aberjhani

"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."

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Aberjhani

"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."

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Aberjhani

"The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away."

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Aberjhani

"On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold."

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Aberjhani

"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

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