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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The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
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The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
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It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
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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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I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
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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.