Peter Porter may refer to: (wikipedia)
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.
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
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.
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.
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.
