Peter Davis

“One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.”

“Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.”

“It's beautiful to transcend generations and to just be inside an artistic work, together, enjoying what only a great artistic work can provide.”

“I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.”

“The problem with this poem, from your perspective, must be its lack of financial value. I guess my problem with you, from my perspective, is how you insist on putting a financial value on everything.”

“This might make for an awkward situation. I have a talent for awkward situations.”

“My thoughts are really all I think about.”

“The universe can be incredible! Just try to take this moment in. This is really something!”

“I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad.”

“Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.”

“I would like to make you more aware of yourself as a human, and thus, ultimately a better person.”

“I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.”

“all that really matters to me is that there are critics.”

“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.”

“I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.”

“Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.”

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”