Peter Porter Quotes

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

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.

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

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Peter Porter may refer to:

Peter Buell Porter (1773–1844), U.S. political figure and soldier
Peter A. Porter (colonel) (1827–1864), his son, Union Army colonel
Peter A. Porter (1853–1925), U.S. political figure and grandson of Peter Buell Porter
Peter Porter (poet) (1929–2010), Australian-born British poet
Peter B. Porter Jr. (1806–1871), American lawyer and politician, nephew of Peter Buell 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 completel...

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 completel...

Peter Porter

Tags: poetry, people, years, mean