Peter Porter Quotes
- It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
- I am moving deeper into my own brain.
- Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
- Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
- An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
- I have no fondness for pure form at all.
- 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…
- Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
- In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations…
- A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
- 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 money…
- I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the…
- You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.