Peter Porter (poet)

"Language of the liberal dead speaks From the soil of Highgate, tears Show a great water table is intact. You cannot leave England, it turns A planet majestically in the mind."

"A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing."

"Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries."

"In the New World, happiness is enforced."

"We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishops 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."

"In Australia Inter alia, Mediocrities Think they’re Socrates."