Peter Porter Quotes

"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
(Related: Poetry, People, EnglEnglish, Poems, Years)

"I have no fondness for pure form at all."
- 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
(Related: Money, People)

"Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man."
- Peter Porter
(Related: Love, Sex, Hell, Man)

"You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily."
- Peter Porter
(Related: Work, Artist, Will)

"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
(Related: Being, Poems, Words)