39 ordspråk av Peter Davison
Peter Davison
 I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that. |
| 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. |
| If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets. |
| If they want to know anything about poetry, they simply have to go out and learn it. |
| In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read. |
| 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. |
| It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. |
| It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. |
| 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. |
| Obviously, there is a connection between the outer face of the poet and the persona that emerges in his or her work. |
| 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. |
| People who deliver their work in poetry slams have a lot of vitality, and they are more dramatic than the institutional/academic poets. |
| Poetry is composing for the breath. |
| Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. |
| Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. |
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