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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.
— Peter Davison
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.
— Peter Davison
Virtue cannot be taught, no more than genius; indeed, concepts are as unfruitful for it as for art and of use only as tools.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
— Peter Davison
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
— Peter Davison
I like poems that are little games.
— Peter Davison
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
— Peter Davison
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
— Peter Davison
Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.
— Eric Chaisson
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
— Peter Davison
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
— Peter Davison
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
— Peter Davison
Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love
— Jane Austen
The peace that resides in you will express itself only when you free all the fears and doubts you have in your mind.
— Stephen Richards
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
— Peter Davison
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
— Peter Davison
Poetry is composing for the breath.
— Peter Davison
I like poems that are complex.
— Peter Davison
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
— Peter Davison
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
— Don DeLillo
He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
— Michel De Montaigne
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
— Peter Davison
Without a vision and a mission, your company can be termed as a 'Bull' set free in the busy streets of the corporate world
— Henrietta Newton Martin