Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didnt read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. – Peter Porter
Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. – Friedrich August von Hayek
