In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read. Peter Davison Read 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 Read Quote
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. Peter Davison Read Quote
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. Peter Davison Read Quote
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant. Peter Davison Read Quote
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. Peter Davison Read 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 Read 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 Read Quote
