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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. ↗

— Peter Davison

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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

— Peter Davison

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The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it. ↗

— 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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I love romantic poetry. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. ↗

— James Joyce

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I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. ↗

— Toi Derricotte

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