Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. – 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