Peter Buell Porter Quotes

• 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 Buell Porter

  Topics in History

  Tags in Think, 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.

  Peter Buell Porter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry And Poets

• 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 Buell Porter

  Topics in Money

  Tags in People

• I have no fondness for pure form at all.

  Peter Buell Porter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pure

• 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 Buell Porter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship, Poem

• Love without s*x is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

  Peter Buell Porter

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Men

• You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone’s work and work with it happily.

  Peter Buell Porter

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Happily

Peter Buell Porter (7)

Birth:	14th August, 1773
Death:	20th March, 1844
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician, Soldier

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