Ran Fast Quotes by Peter Porter

More Quotes by Peter Porter

Peter Porter has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now,…

See all 13 quotes by Peter Porter »