"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory." ― Peter Davison Topic(s): Poetry More From Peter Davison "But for me, being an editor I’ve been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most." "Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding." "Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one’s own understanding of how to understand the world." More In Poetry "The thing about death is that it’s honest."― Laura Linney "That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."― Walter Pater "I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic."― Joni Mitchell