Author: Peter Davison

Quotes

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

- Peter Davison

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

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

- Peter Davison

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

- Peter Davison

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

- Peter Davison

I like poems that are little games.

I like poems that are little games.

- Peter Davison

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

- Peter Davison

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

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

- Peter Davison

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.

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

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.

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

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