#poet

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#before #begun #did #enough #folk

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#great #may #more #never #novelists

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. ↗

— Peter Davison

#lot #many #more #more people #people

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets. ↗

— Peter Davison

#realistic #were

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. ↗

— Peter Davison

#being #books #could #crucial #editor

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. ↗

— Peter Davison

#matters #me #my life #poetry

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

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