Peter Porter
"I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene."
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"I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene."
"بدأت مسيرتي في إنجلترا، ولم يكن يعلم الكثيرون أنني أسترالي. أقصد، كانت القرائن واضحة في القصائد، لكنهم لم يقرأوها بعناية كافية، وهكذا، لسنوات وسنوات، اعتُبرت جزءًا لا يتجزأ من المشهد الشعري الإنجليزي."
Peter Porter
"In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures."
"بمعنى آخر، الصور في علاقة متماسّة عند نقاط معينة فحسب، لا أنها رسوم توضيحية لقصائد، ولا القصائد استقراءات للصور."
Peter Porter
"Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not."
"أودن شاعر بارع في القافية، أما شكسبير فليس كذلك."
Peter Porter
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