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.
More Quotes from Peter Davison:
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
Very often, what I find newest is something very old. It's just a little jingle, a little rhythm, a little turn, a little trope.
Peter Davison
They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
Peter Davison
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
Peter Davison
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
Peter Davison
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
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Nicolas de Chamfort
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
Frank Gehry
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
John Henrik Clarke