"An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out."

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Source : Peter Porter (2010). “The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

Peter Porter

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“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”
“Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.”
“Nature attains perfection, but man never does.”
“I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.”

Source : Esquire, January 2010.
“To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.”
“No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?”
“We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.”
“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.”

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