“The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have...” — Peter Davison Quote

“The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am fascinated by prime factors. They are poetic.”

“Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.”

“It's very rare to find scripts that are poetic and very romantic.”