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Peter Davison

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.

— Peter Davison hope

I like poems that are little games.

— Peter Davison poem

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

— Peter Davison poetry

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison sin

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison poem

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

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

— Peter Davison writing

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison poetry

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

— Peter Davison people

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

— Peter Davison life

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

— Peter Davison poet

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

— Peter Davison past

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

— Peter Davison understanding

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison poetry

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison poem

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.

— Peter Davison people

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison poet

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

— Peter Davison war

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

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

— Peter Davison people

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 freedom

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

— Peter Davison work

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 love

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

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

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 isnt the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

— Peter Davison hope

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