"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."
― Peter Davison
Topic(s): Poetry
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 like poems that are little games."
- "The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all."
More In Poetry
- "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."― John Updike
- "My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I’ve never forgotten that."― Sam Raimi
- "If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because you’ve done a comedy performance but because you’re talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."― Roger McGough