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Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
Peter Porter Quotes: Writing poetry is the only
Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.
Peter Porter Quotes: Somewhere at the heart of
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
Peter Porter Quotes: I have no fondness for
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 Quotes: In other words the pictures
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
Peter Porter Quotes: Love without sex is still
I am moving deeper into my own brain.
Peter Porter Quotes: I am moving deeper into
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 Quotes: As to whether the people
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
Peter Porter Quotes: A poem is a form
In the New World, happiness is enforced.
Peter Porter Quotes: In the New World, happiness
The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.
Peter Porter Quotes: The Arden Shakespeare is intended
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 Quotes: We cannot know what John
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 Quotes: I wanted to take a
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
Peter Porter Quotes: Much have I travelled in
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
Peter Porter Quotes: Auden is an accomplished rhymer
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