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In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

- Peter Davison
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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.

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.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

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.

I like poems that are complex.

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.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

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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In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.