Peter Porter
Peter Porter
Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAMwas a British-based Australian poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 February 1929
CityBrisbane, Australia
CountryUnited States of America
Peter Porter quotes about
poetry language form
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
language lit poetry-is
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
american-soldier country hideous people sell thoroughly
I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.
american-soldier money people supposedly whether
As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know.
american-soldier work
You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
becomes enters natural pilgrimage
The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pilgrimage through us.
sports proud innocence
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
moving brain conformity
I am moving deeper into my own brain.
accomplished auden
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
art paradise rumours
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
sex men hell
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
affection form pure
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
mean years people
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.
relationship illustration touching
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.