Frasi di Peter Porter

Peter Neville Frederick Porter è stato un poeta australiano.

✵ 16. Febbraio 1929 – 23. Aprile 2010
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Peter Porter: Frasi in inglese

“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.

“We cannot know what John of Leyden felt
Under the Bishop's tongs – we can only
Walk in temperate London, our educated city,
Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died
In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness
And our regret with which to build an eschatology.”

"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)

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