Quotes by Peter Porter

Peter Porter

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Form

Language

Poetry

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Believe

Breathing

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

Art

Paradise

Rumours

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

Accomplished

Auden

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Brain

Conformity

Moving

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

Affection

Form

Pure

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.

Mean

People

Years

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.

Illustration

Relationship

Touching

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

New World

World

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

Innocence

Proud

Sports

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Accomplished

Affection

Art

Auden

Believe

Brain

Breathing

Cities

Conformity

Fate

Form

Giving

Gold

Heart

Hell

Illustration

Innocence

Language

Library

Lit

Loneliness

Mean

Men

Moving

New World

Notes

Paradise

People

Poetry

Poetry Is

Proud

Pure

Realms

Regret

Relationship

Rumours

Satisfaction

Sex

Sound

Sports

Too Late

Touching

World

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Peter Porter

Peter Porter

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

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

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

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.

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.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

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