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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People who deliver their work in poetry slams have a lot of vitality, and they are more dramatic than the institutional/academic poets.
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If they want to know anything about poetry, they simply have to go out and learn it.
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Obviously, there is a connection between the outer face of the poet and the persona that emerges in his or her work.
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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
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But nobody can write poetry all the time.
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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.
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But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
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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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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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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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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.