Peter Porter famous quotes

04-17-2025

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
-- Peter Porter

#Language #Lit #Poetry Is
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
-- Peter Porter

#Sports #Proud #Innocence
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.
-- Peter Porter

#Believe #Breathing
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
-- Peter Porter

#Library #Gold #Realms
Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.
-- Peter Porter

#Fate #Too Late #World
In the New World, happiness is enforced.
-- Peter Porter

#World
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

#Regret #Loneliness #Cities
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
-- Peter Porter

#Poetry #Language #Form
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

#Relationship #Illustration #Touching
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

#Mean #Years #People
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
-- Peter Porter

#Affection #Form #Fondness
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
-- Peter Porter

#Sex #Men #Hell
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
-- Peter Porter

#Art #Paradise #Rumours
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
-- Peter Porter

#Accomplished #Auden
I am moving deeper into my own brain.
-- Peter Porter

#Moving #Brain #Conformity
Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.
-- Peter Porter

#Heart #Sound #Notes

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