Logo
Quote by Peter Davison
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason

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 ones own understanding of how to understand the world. – Peter Davison

Other quotes by Peter Davison

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

Category:
Poetry
Author
Peter Davison
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

The mystical poetry of William Blakes artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. – Bruce Dickinson

Category:
Poetry

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

Category:
Poetry

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn

Category:
Poetry

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Thomas B. Macaulay

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

I dont like country music, but I dont mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. – Bob Newhart

Category:
Music

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, youre related to them. It doesnt mean that youre going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think its fascinating. – Henry Louis Gates

Category:
Family

A lot happens by accident in poetry. – Howard Nemerov

Category:
Poetry