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Peter Davison

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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Donna Grant

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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Donna Grant

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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Peter Davison
"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

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Peter Davison
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."

Culture

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Peter Davison
"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."

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Peter Davison
"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."

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Peter Davison
"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."

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Peter Davison
"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."

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Peter Davison
"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."

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Peter Davison
"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."

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

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Peter Davison
"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."

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