Peter Davison Quotes & Sayings

“The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.”

“I like poems that are little games.”

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

“Poetry is composing for the breath.”

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

“My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.”

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

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

“It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.”

“Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.”