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

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