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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- I like poems that are little games.
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- I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
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