Peter Davison Quotes


I like poems that are little games. Peter Davison Poetry 92
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. Peter Davison Come 84
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. Peter Davison Poetry 78
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. Peter Davison Poetry 75
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. Peter Davison Believe 73
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. Peter Davison Poetry 71
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. Peter Davison Poetry 70
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. Peter Davison Problem 64
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. Peter Davison Poetry 63
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. Peter Davison Poetry 63
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 Poems 63
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. Peter Davison Poetry 61
I like poems that are complex. Peter Davison Complex 58
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. Peter Davison Poetry 57
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant. Peter Davison Become 56
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. Peter Davison Poetry 55
Poetry is composing for the breath. Peter Davison Poetry 50
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. Peter Davison Poetry 44
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. Peter Davison Poetry 42
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read. Peter Davison Forward 38
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. Peter Davison Poetry 34
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. Peter Davison Poetry 31
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. Peter Davison Poem 29
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets. Peter Davison Frost 23

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