Hal Porter Quotes

• Las normas de comportamiento no escritas son infinitas, finamente matizadas y sutiles hasta la última fracción de grado. No deben romperse. Si se rompen, las reglas del perdón que conducen al restablecimiento son igualmente de aire y de hierro. Aprendo estas reglas con bastante menos facilidad que mis contemporáneos porque, en los entresijos de mi ser, se desarrolla y aumenta en fervor un duelo entre mi instinto, que sabe por qué algo es así, y mi inteligencia gallinácea, que desea analizar por qué algo es así.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Air, Iron

  Hal Porter, Mary Lord (1980). “Hal Porter”, Univ of Queensland Pr

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• Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.

  Hal Porter

  Uplifting, Weed, Adventure

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• How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.

  Hal Porter

  Youth, Young, Ruthless

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• I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.

  Hal Porter

  Deporte, Correr, Diversión

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• El calor es abrasador y soberbio. Los prados que rodean la ciudad están blanqueados de rubio. Los lejanos eucaliptos de corteza anillada, kilómetro tras kilómetro, se retuercen bajo las olas de calor y parecen derretirse como las cerdas de un cepillo para el pelo. Las colinas se vuelven de un azul empolvado y borroso. En los extremos de las calles y carreteras aparecen espejismos que parecen charcos de mica y bajíos de agua cristalina. Puntualmente a las once de cada ardiente mañana, las cigarras comienzan a taladrar el aire, a taladrarse a sí mismas también, incesante e implacablemente, hasta morir en un corto día tras siete largos años bajo tierra.

  Hal Porter

  Morning, Nature, Air

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• This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year nor Next Year am I to have the ability and wisdom to light the lamp on my own. Although one branch of childhood is in this fashion lopped for all time, the rest of it still inhabits the body of a child which occupies itself in childish matters.

  Hal Porter

  Fashion, Art, Children

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• Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Character, Destiny

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• La forma australiana de autoestima, por áspera y preparada, corazón de oro, ven y toma la suerte con nosotros, y matizadamente extrovertida que sea, es esencialmente, gentil, ingurgitante, autocompasiva, de corazón de vainilla y helado, su miedo central es el miedo al intelecto.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Ice Cream, Self

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• While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.

  Hal Porter

  Amor, Niños, Otoño

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• I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a goitre, a hump on the back, webbed toes, and makes me stink like the night-man. Once again I learn what I knew on my very first day at Kensington School, and have carelessly forgotten, that it is more intelligent to appear less intelligent. I henceforth rein myself in, and publicly give back only what I have been given - fifty-six for seven- eights.

  Hal Porter

  Educación, Aprendizaje, Escuela

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• Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Children, Childhood

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