Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. – Peter Davison
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – 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