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Peter Davison
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"Poetry is composing for the breath."
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Peter Davison
Topic(s):
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."
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Peter Davison
Topic(s):
Poetry
"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
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Peter Davison
Topic(s):
Poetry
"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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Peter Davison
Topic(s):
Poetry
"I like poems that are little games."
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Peter Davison
Topic(s):
Poetry
"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
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Peter Davison
Topic(s):
Freedom
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