Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

#awful #because #i #i think #knows

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. ↗

— Peter Davison

#having #i #know #like #never

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

#enough #forget #going #had #i

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

— Peter Davison

#realistic #were

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read. ↗

— Peter Davison

#found #i #inspired #often #pushed

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. ↗

— Peter Davison

#past #poetry #prose #way #ways

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. ↗

— Peter Davison

#contact #difficult #emotions #own #people

Poetry is composing for the breath. ↗

— Peter Davison

#composing #poetry

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

— Peter Davison

#appeal #everybody #levels #poetry #reach

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

— Peter Davison

#enable #invented #people #poetry #prayers