American - Poet | June 27, 1928 -
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 like poems that are little games.
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I like poems that are complex.
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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.
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In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
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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.
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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.
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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
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The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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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.
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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.
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