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Peter Davison

"Poetry is composing for the breath."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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Donna Grant

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

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Peter Davison
"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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Peter Davison
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."

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

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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
"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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Peter Davison
"People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel."

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Peter Davison
"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

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Peter Davison
"And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet."

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Peter Davison
"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."

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