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
american-soldier work
You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
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 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'.
language lit poetry-is
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
library gold realms
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
world new-world
In the New World, happiness is enforced.
affection form pure
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
accomplished auden
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
moving brain conformity
I am moving deeper into my own brain.
sports proud innocence
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.