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
believe breathing
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.
language lit poetry-is
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
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.
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.
regret loneliness cities
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.
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.