#poe

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets. ↗

— Peter Davison

#most #poets #sophisticated

I like poems that are little games. ↗

— Peter Davison

#games #i #like #little #poems

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. ↗

— Peter Davison

#awful #because #i #i think #knows

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. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enough #forget #going #had #i

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

#getting #head #makes #more #people

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

— Peter Davison

#poems #reason #remembered #will #writes

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

#performance #poetic #poets #read #real

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#humanism #marxism #poetry #rosa-luxemburg #beauty

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#frankly #get #living #lot #make