More From Peter Davison
- "But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
- "I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."― Diane Wakoski
- "Well, if this is poetry, I’m certainly never going to write any myself."― James Schuyler
- "Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry."― Georges Braque