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. ↗

— Peter Davison

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The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. ↗

— Peter Davison

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The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. ↗

— Peter Davison

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The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work. ↗

— Peter Davison

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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. ↗

— Peter Davison

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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. ↗

— Peter Davison

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