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

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