Top 31 Quotes by Peter Davison

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

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

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

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.

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

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

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 forget.

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

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.