About Quote by Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have…

— Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive…

— Peter Davison

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not…

— Peter Davison