Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
Peter Davison
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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. -
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. -
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry. -
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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- 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.
- I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
- Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
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