Any Quote by Peter Davison

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

— Nick Flynn

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they…

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

— Stanley Kunitz

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered…

— Xenophon

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

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

— Peter Davison

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

— Richard Hell

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath