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Peter Davison Quotes
And I watch my friends, most of whom are in academic life because most poets have to be in academic life, there arent so many other ways to survive. - Peter Davison Quotes
And one of the odd things about it is that poetry is now fleeing from the academies to another institution, which is the performance poetry. - Peter Davison Quotes
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. - Peter Davison Quotes
But for me, being an editor Ive 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 Quotes
But nobody can write poetry all the time. - Peter Davison Quotes
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. - Peter Davison Quotes
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 Quotes
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 ones own understanding of how to understand the world. - Peter Davison Quotes
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 Quotes
For instance, its a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative. - Peter Davison Quotes
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets. - Peter Davison Quotes
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant. - Peter Davison Quotes
I like poems that are complex. - Peter Davison Quotes
I like poems that are little games. - Peter Davison Quotes
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. - Peter Davison Quotes
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 reason to be proud of that. - Peter Davison Quotes
If I were brave enough to say so, Id like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget. - Peter Davison Quotes
If poets were realistic, they wouldnt be poets. - Peter Davison Quotes
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read. - Peter Davison Quotes
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they arent ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them. - Peter Davison Quotes
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. - Peter Davison Quotes
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. - Peter Davison Quotes
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because theyre embarrassed that I write it or theyre embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. - Peter Davison Quotes
People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. Its not going to change the world. Its not going to change the way we think, and its not going to change the way we feel. - Peter Davison Quotes
Poetry is composing for the breath. - Peter Davison Quotes
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. - Peter Davison Quotes
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. - Peter Davison Quotes
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 is that makes people write poetry at all. - Peter Davison Quotes
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. - Peter Davison Quotes
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. - Peter Davison Quotes
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