Peter Davison Poems Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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.