"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can’t do in prose." ― Peter Davison Topic(s): Poetry More From Peter Davison "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." "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." "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." More In Poetry "Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."― Christopher Fry "The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture."― Richard Dawkins "Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy."― Liam Neeson