26 Quotes by 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'.

The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pilgrimage through us.

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

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

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

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

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.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

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