Peter Davison
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is an English actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, and as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to 1984. Also, he played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites. Since 2011 he has played Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth13 April 1951
CityLondon, England
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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.
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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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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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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
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In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
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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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The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
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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.
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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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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.