However, in 1950 there might have been 150 books of poetry published in a year. In 1997, there are probably about 1,500.
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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.Peter Davison
Very often, what I find newest is something very old. It's just a little jingle, a little rhythm, a little turn, a little trope.
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For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
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But nobody can write poetry all the time.
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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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