Peter Davison Quotes

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• The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
• It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
• I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
• I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
• Poetry is composing for the breath.
• Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
• Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
• Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
• I like poems that are little games.
• I like poems that are complex.
• 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…
• In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
• 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…
• But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
• The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
• And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
• 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…
• 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…
• There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
• 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…

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