Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison
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
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
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks