Quotes Peter Davison

And I watch my friends, most of whom are in academic life be...

And one of the odd things about it is that poetry is now fle...

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there ar...

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds...

But nobody can write poetry all the time....

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me....

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this i...

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the r...

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the r...

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or th...

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets....

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is...

I like poems that are complex....

I like poems that are little games....

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because n...

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that w...

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I h...

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets....

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pus...

In order to understand what they need to understand, in orde...

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry i...

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with thei...

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're ...

Obviously, there is a connection between the outer face of t...

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going ...