Form Quote by Peter Porter Download Open image “Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.” — Peter Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entire Satisfaction Form Give me Giving Labour Literary Labour Poetry Poetry is Satisfaction Writing Writing poetry
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater 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
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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
