Peter Porter may refer to:
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
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.
An old art spreading rumours about Paradise, it begs outside the gates Of the gods: the active gods come out.
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.
I am moving deeper into my own brain.
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
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.
Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.
In the New World, happiness is enforced.