Form Quote by Peter Porter Download Open image “A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.” — Peter Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Form Inspirational Language Poetry
A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping. — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page. — Li-Young Lee 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 Image
“Answers to all the problems that there are, Except the love that kills, the death that lives.” — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
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 Image
Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
The Copa del Rey is a different competition. It is football in its purest form and is different from the continuity of the league. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
