Quotes by Peter Porter - Page 1

I am moving deeper into my own brain.
Peter Porter / Poet
Brain
Conformity
Moving
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In the New World, happiness is enforced.
Peter Porter / Poet
New World
World
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I have no fondness for pure form at all.
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Affection
Fondness
Form
Pure
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Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
Peter Porter / Poet
Accomplished
Auden
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A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.
Peter Porter / Poet
Believe
Breathing
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A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
Peter Porter / Poet
Poetry
Form
Language
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Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
Peter Porter / Poet
Language
Lit
Poetry Is
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Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.
Peter Porter / Poet
Heart
Notes
Sound
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Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
Peter Porter / Poet
Men
Efficient
Form
Hell
Sex
Most
Man
Without
Still
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Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
Peter Porter / Poet
Giving
Satisfaction
Writing
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Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.
Peter Porter / Poet
Fate
Too Late
World
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You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
Peter Porter / Poet
Artist
Work Will Never
Happily
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Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
Peter Porter / Poet
Gold
Library
Realms
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It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
Peter Porter / Poet
Sports
Innocence
Proud
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An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
Peter Porter / Poet
Art
Paradise
Rumours
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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 is something which I shall never know.
Peter Porter / Poet
Arthur
Money People Never
Shall
Supposedly
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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 of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
Peter Porter / Poet
Relationship
Illustration
Touching
Illustrations
In Other Words
Pictures
Poems
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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 the English poetry scene.
Peter Porter / Poet
Australian
England
Mean
People
Scene
Years
Considered
Carefully
Clues
Few People
Years And Years
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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 substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.
Peter Porter / Poet
Distortion
Heritage
Hideous
Substitution
Established
Sell
Country People Stand
Real Sense
Thoroughly
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We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.
Peter Porter / Poet
Cities
Loneliness
Regret
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