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Peter Davison
Peter Davison
American Poet
Born: Jun 27, 1928
About Because Me People Poetry Think
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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. Peter Davison
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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. Peter Davison
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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. Peter Davison
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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. Peter Davison
Will Would Some Poems Having Never Written Remembered Like Know Proud Any Whether Reason
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. Peter Davison
Memory About Poetry Which Many Things
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. Peter Davison
Past Our Way Ways Poetry Prose
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. Peter Davison
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets. Peter Davison
Realistic Poets Were
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative. Peter Davison
Better Three Indicative Seem Something Poems Better Now Instance Written Like Years Years Ago Than Little Now Present Receive Two
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
Work Trouble Sense Seem Poetic Poets Performance Read Real Tradition Real Sense Anything
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. Peter Davison
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. Peter Davison
Understanding Everybody Able Poetry Reach Should Appeal Levels
I like poems that are complex. Peter Davison
Complex Poems Like
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. Peter Davison
Good Nature Every Too Find Atlantic Some Poems Poetry Involved Readers Because Often Little
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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