It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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