American - Poet | June 27, 1928 -
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.
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If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.
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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.
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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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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.
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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.
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