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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
Collection: Relationship
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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
Collection: Poetry
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Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
- Peter Porter
Collection: Language
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A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Poetry
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Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Heart
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Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Sex
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A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Believe
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I am moving deeper into my own brain.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Moving
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Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Writing
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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
Collection: Regret
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Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Fate
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In the New World, happiness is enforced.
- Peter Porter
Collection: World
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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
Collection: Library
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I have no fondness for pure form at all.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Affection
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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
Collection: Art
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Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
- Peter Porter
Collection: Accomplished
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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
Collection: Sports

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