Peter Porter quotes
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“Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language”
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“It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.”
-- Peter PorterSource : Peter Porter (1961). “Once bitten, twice bitten: poems”
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“A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.”
-- Peter PorterSource : Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail
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“Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.”
-- Peter PorterSource : Peter Porter (2010). “The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems”, p.15, Pan Macmillan
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“Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”
-- Peter PorterSource : Peter Porter (1992). “The chair of Babel”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“In the New World, happiness is enforced.”
-- Peter PorterSource : Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
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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 PorterSource : Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
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“A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.”
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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 PorterSource : "John Kinsella interviews Peter Porter". www.johnkinsella.org. 1993.
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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 PorterSource : Interview with John Kinsella, www.johnkinsella.org. 1998.
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“Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.”
-- Peter PorterSource : Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail
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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 PorterSource : Peter Porter (2010). “The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
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“Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.”
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“I am moving deeper into my own brain.”
-- Peter PorterSource : Peter Porter (1972). “Preaching to the converted”, Not Avail
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“Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.”
-- Peter PorterSource : Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail
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