Peter Porter (poet)

"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."

"In the New World, happiness is enforced."

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

"Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate."

"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."

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

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

"Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me."