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Peter Davison [1951-0] British

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Peter Davison is an English actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, and as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to 1984.

Poetry

Quote	Tags	Rank
Poetry is composing for the breath.	Poetry	101
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.		102
I like poems that are little games.	Poetry	103
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.	Poetry	104
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.		105
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.		106
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.		107
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.		108
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.		109
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.	Poetry	110
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.	Poetry	111
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.		112
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 one's own understanding of how to understand the world.	Poetry	113
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.		114
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.	Poetry	115
I like poems that are complex.		116
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.	Poetry	117
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.		118
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.	Poetry	119
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.	Poetry	120
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.		121
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.	Poetry	122
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.	Poetry	123
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.		124
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.		125
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.	Poetry	126
If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.		201
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.		202
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.	Poetry	203
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.	Poetry	204
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.		205

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