Quotes by 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'.
• 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.
• I have no fondness for pure form at all.
• 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.
• Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
• You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
• 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.