Peter Neville Frederick Porter war ein australischstämmiger britischer Dichter. Im Jahr 2002 erhielt er die Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, und 2007 wurde er von der Royal Society of Literature zu einem von zehn Companions of Literature ernannt. Wikipedia
“Redeemers always reach the world too late.
God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”
"A Tale of Two Pieties", in The Chair of Babel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 51.
“Somewhere at the heart
of the universe sounds the
true mystic note: Me.”
"Japanese Jokes", p. 63.
The Last of England (1970)
“In Australia
Inter alia,
Mediocrities
Think they’re Socrates.”
Quoted in Charles Osborne Giving It Away (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986) p. 114.
"The Sanitized Sonnets: 4", p. 41.
The Last of England (1970)
"The Last of England", p. 1.
The Last of England (1970)
"The Historians Call Up Pain", first collected in Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (1961); cited from Edward Lucie-Smith and Philip Hobsbaum (eds.) A Group Anthology (London: Oxford University Press, 1963) p. 83.
“In the New World, happiness is enforced.”
"In the New World Happiness is Allowed", in The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978) p. 28.
“A professional
is one who believes he has
invented breathing.”
"Japanese Jokes", p. 62.
The Last of England (1970)
