Peter Davison Quotes

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. - Peter Davison

Poetry is composing for the breath. - Peter Davison

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

Obviously, there is a connection between the outer face of the poet and the persona that emerges in his or her work. - Peter Davison

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

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. - Peter Davison

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

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

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