Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Porter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American soldier Peter Porter.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Peter Buell Porter was an American lawyer, soldier and politician who served as United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829.

American - Soldier | 1773 - 1844

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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

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

Peter Porter

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

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

Peter Porter

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

Peter Porter

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'.

Peter Porter

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.

Peter Porter

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

Peter Porter

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Peter Porter

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Peter Porter

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Peter Porter

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

Peter Porter

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

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

Peter Porter

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Peter Porter

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

Peter Porter

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

Peter Porter

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Peter Porter