People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.
Peter Davison

Poetry is composing for the breath.
Peter Davison

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

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

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
Peter Davison

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
Peter Davison

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Peter Davison

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
Peter Davison

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
Peter Davison

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
Peter Davison

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
Peter Davison