Quotes by Peter Davison - Page 1

I like poems that are complex.
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Complex
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Poetry is composing for the breath.
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Composing
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I like poems that are little games.
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Poetry
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Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
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Frost
Sophisticated
Poets
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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Realistic
Poets
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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
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Matters
Life Poetry Me
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The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
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Remembered
Poem
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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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Memory
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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
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Device
Enable
Prayers
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In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
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Youth
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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
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Prose
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I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
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Dominant
Rise
Version
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The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
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Produce
Uniformity
Programs
Product
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It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
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Contact
Sensibilities
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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Levels
Appeal
Reach
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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
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Muscle
Awful Lot
Memorize
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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More People
So Many People
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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.
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Remembered
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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.
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Poetic
Performance
Real Sense
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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.
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Atlantic
Readers
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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 seem to be written in the present indicative.
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Better Now
Instance
Years Ago
Indicative
Receive
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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.
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Roots
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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.
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Freedom Believe Free
Poets
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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.
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Crucial
My Time
Love Time Poetry
Editor
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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.
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Interpret
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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 one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
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Understanding
Constantly
Coming
Daunting
Dealing
Simply
Editor
Terms
Task
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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 going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.
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Change The World
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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.
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Embarrassed
Human Existence
Extraordinarily
Terrifying
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In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
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Puts
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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.
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Broadcasting
Insignificant
Receiver
Receiving
Relation
Matters
Hopes
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