40 Quotes by Peter Davison

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

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

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

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

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

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

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

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 which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.