Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAM was a British-based Australian poet.
“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)
