Source: A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989
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Famous Peter Porter Quotes
“In the New World, happiness is enforced.”
Source: A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989
“Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”
Source: The chair of Babel
Source: The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems
“A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.”
Source: The last of England
“Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.”
Source: The last of England
“Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.”
Source: Once bitten, twice bitten: poems
“I am moving deeper into my own brain.”
Source: Preaching to the converted
Source: The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems
“Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.”
Source: The last of England
“Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language”
“A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.”