Any Quote by Peter Davison

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the…

— Erica Jong

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Peter Davison

“How had his life become one a poet would be proud of?”

— Ellie Macdonald

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.

— Rod Serling

Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even…

— Paulo Coelho

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…

— Peter Davison

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

I just really want be proud of the work I'm doing, whether it's something I've written, produced, or am starring in. I just want…

— Lena Waithe

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

— James Broughton

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine