Quote by Peter Davison
Poetry is composing for the breath. - Peter Davison

Poetry is composing for the breath. – Peter Davison

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But for me, being an editor Ive 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. – Peter Davison

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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because theyre embarrassed that I write it or theyre embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. – Peter Davison

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They need to learn poetry. They dont need to learn about poetry. They dont need to be told how to interpret poetry. They dont need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. – Peter Davison

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. – John Colville

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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. – Peter Davison

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If we ask a vague question, such as, What is poetry? we expect a vague answer, such as, Poetry is the music of words, or Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder. – A. R. Ammons

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Poetry is reverie on paper. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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