I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used… — Peter Porter Copy Share
“Answers to all the problems that there are, Except the love that kills, the death that lives.” — Peter Porter Copy Share
As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own… — Peter Porter Copy Share
Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate. — Peter Porter Copy Share
“Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in Venus is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of Lucrece , where virtue is so low-spirited, its exclamation so… — Peter Porter Copy Share
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast. — Peter Porter Copy Share
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. — Peter Porter Copy Share
We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city,… — Peter Porter Copy Share
