It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. Peter Davison Read Quote
For instance, it’s a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative. Peter Davison Read Quote
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. Peter Davison Read Quote
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can’t do in prose. Peter Davison Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one’s own understanding of how to understand the world. Peter Davison Read Quote
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn’t the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it. Peter Davison Read Quote
