Quotes by Peter Davison - Page 1

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

Related Authors

Dalai Lama
Saturday, Jul 06, 1935
Vince Lombardi
Football Player
Wednesday, Jun 11, 1913
Thursday, Sep 03, 1970
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Jordan Peterson
Psychologist
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Commander
Tuesday, Aug 15, 1769
Saturday, May 05, 1821
Yogi Berra
Baseball Manager
Tuesday, May 12, 1925
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015
Paulo Coelho
Lyricist
Sunday, Aug 24, 1947
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father Of The United States
Sunday, Jan 17, 1706
Saturday, Apr 17, 1790
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34Th U.s. President
Tuesday, Oct 14, 1890
Friday, Mar 28, 1969
Michael Jordan
Basketball Player
Sunday, Feb 17, 1963
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Saturday, Jul 26, 1856
Thursday, Nov 02, 1950
Will Rogers
Actor
Tuesday, Nov 04, 1879
Thursday, Aug 15, 1935
Carrie Fisher
Actress
Sunday, Oct 21, 1956
Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016
George Carlin
Comedian
Wednesday, May 12, 1937
Sunday, Jun 22, 2008
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1921
Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004

View All Quotes

Top Authors

Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Deepak Chopra
Author
Wednesday, Oct 22, 1947
Khalil Gibran
Poet
Saturday, Jan 06, 1883
Friday, Apr 10, 1931
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Monday, Oct 16, 1854
Friday, Nov 30, 1900
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
Saturday, Apr 26, 0121
Friday, Mar 17, 0180
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
Thursday, Feb 24, 1955
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
Thursday, Jan 08, 1942
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Writer
Thursday, Aug 28, 1749
Thursday, Mar 22, 1832
Robin Williams
Actor
Saturday, Jul 21, 1951
Monday, Aug 11, 2014
Steven Wright
Comedian
Tuesday, Dec 06, 1955
Muhammad Ali
Professional Boxer
Saturday, Jan 17, 1942
Friday, Jun 03, 2016
Les Brown
Author
Saturday, Feb 17, 1945
Martin Luther
Monk
Saturday, Nov 10, 1483
Monday, Feb 18, 1546
Winston Churchill
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Monday, Nov 30, 1874
Sunday, Jan 24, 1965
Robert Frost
Poet
Thursday, Mar 26, 1874
Tuesday, Jan 29, 1963

View All Authors

Peter Davison Quotes - Page 1

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page