Peter Davison Quotes

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

There are very few great poets in the world.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.