Quotes of Peter Porter - somelinesforyou

“ I mean, one of the great problems of the 20th century has been that the poets recognising that there's a lack of seriouness in the world and turned themselves to a certain degree, to be stand up comedians, even the best of them. Now in the 60's and the 70's in England anyway, I'm not sure about Australia and America, the poet as a stand up comedian became practically, the sort of style of the time. ”

- Peter Porter

“ 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

“ Once a thing's painted it's calm, and I thought, even if it shows a massacre of the innocents, the blade is still lifted, the blood isn't on the floor. I'd been particularly struck by this ridiculous little saint in San Gemignano who lay down on a plank aged fifteen and never got off it again, the saint of the town… ”

- Peter Porter

“ 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

“ You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily. ”

- Peter Porter

“ I have no fondness for pure form at all. ”

- Peter Porter

“ 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

“ 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

“ You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily. ”

- Peter Porter

“ 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

“ I mean, one of the great problems of the 20th century has been that the poets recognising that there's a lack of seriouness in the world and turned themselves to a certain degree, to be stand up comedians, even the best of them. Now in the 60's and the 70's in England anyway, I'm not sure about Australia and America, the poet as a stand up comedian became practically, the sort of style of the time. ”

- Peter Porter

“ 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

“ I mean, one of the great problems of the 20th century has been that the poets recognising that there's a lack of seriouness in the world and turned themselves to a certain degree, to be stand up comedians, even the best of them. Now in the 60's and the 70's in England anyway, I'm not sure about Australia and America, the poet as a stand up comedian became practically, the sort of style of the time. ”

- 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'. ”

- 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'. ”

- Peter Porter

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

- Peter Porter

“ Once a thing's painted it's calm, and I thought, even if it shows a massacre of the innocents, the blade is still lifted, the blood isn't on the floor. I'd been particularly struck by this ridiculous little saint in San Gemignano who lay down on a plank aged fifteen and never got off it again, the saint of the town… ”

- Peter Porter

“ Once a thing's painted it's calm, and I thought, even if it shows a massacre of the innocents, the blade is still lifted, the blood isn't on the floor. I'd been particularly struck by this ridiculous little saint in San Gemignano who lay down on a plank aged fifteen and never got off it again, the saint of the town… ”

- Peter Porter

“ I can always get examples from music than I can from illustrative art, if you take an opera which is about Ancient Greece or an opera which is set in sort of Italy or Spain about an amoreuse, Mozart style will be the same for both. You don't have an archaic Greek style for an archaic story and have a sort of sexy, you know, Italian style for a sexy Italian story… ”

- Peter Porter

“ I can always get examples from music than I can from illustrative art, if you take an opera which is about Ancient Greece or an opera which is set in sort of Italy or Spain about an amoreuse, Mozart style will be the same for both. You don't have an archaic Greek style for an archaic story and have a sort of sexy, you know, Italian style for a sexy Italian story… ”

- 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'. ”

- 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'. ”

- Peter Porter

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ I can always get examples from music than I can from illustrative art, if you take an opera which is about Ancient Greece or an opera which is set in sort of Italy or Spain about an amoreuse, Mozart style will be the same for both. You don't have an archaic Greek style for an archaic story and have a sort of sexy, you know, Italian style for a sexy Italian story… ”

- Peter Porter

“ I can always get examples from music than I can from illustrative art, if you take an opera which is about Ancient Greece or an opera which is set in sort of Italy or Spain about an amoreuse, Mozart style will be the same for both. You don't have an archaic Greek style for an archaic story and have a sort of sexy, you know, Italian style for a sexy Italian story… ”

- Peter Porter

“ I can always get examples from music than I can from illustrative art, if you take an opera which is about Ancient Greece or an opera which is set in sort of Italy or Spain about an amoreuse, Mozart style will be the same for both. You don't have an archaic Greek style for an archaic story and have a sort of sexy, you know, Italian style for a sexy Italian story… ”

- Peter Porter

“ It's a very obviously a picture booky story; at the same time, it's very interesting because it is a story of the obsessional nastiness of God; the Jewish God, or the Christian God, whichever God you liked to deal with. ”

- Peter Porter

“ It's a very obviously a picture booky story; at the same time, it's very interesting because it is a story of the obsessional nastiness of God; the Jewish God, or the Christian God, whichever God you liked to deal with. ”

- Peter Porter
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