| 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.
Peter Davison |
| Peter Davison | Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
Peter Davison |
| Peter Davison | I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
Peter Davison |
| 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.
Peter Davison |
| Peter Davison | 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.
Peter Davison |
| 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.
Peter Davison |
| Peter De Vries | Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries |
| Peter DeFazio | But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
Peter DeFazio |
| Peter Drucker | Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
Peter Drucker |
| Peter Falk | Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
Peter Falk |
| Peter Farrelly | Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
Peter Farrelly |
| Peter Farrelly | We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.
Peter Farrelly |
| Peter Forsberg | Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.
Peter Forsberg |
| Peter Garrett | In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
Peter Garrett |
| Peter Garrett | What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
Peter Garrett |
| Peter Hall | Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.
Peter Hall |
| Peter Hook | And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.
Peter Hook |
| Peter Hook | But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
Peter Hook |
| Peter Hook | It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
Peter Hook |
| Peter Jennings | Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?
Peter Jennings |
