Peter Reading Quotes

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This is unclean: to eat turbots on Tuesdays,
tying the turban unclockwise at cockcrow,
cutting the beard in a south-facing mirror,
wearing the mitre while sipping the Bovril,
chawing the pig and the hen and the ox-tail.

Peter Reading

Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.

Peter Reading

Nothing can ever be done;
things are intractably thus;
all know the bite of grief, all will be brought to
destiny's issue;
those who have precognition suffer
sorrow beforehand;
bodies are bankrupt, the main Expedition has
left us behind it.

Peter Reading

Peter Reading

Peter Reading

Born: July 27, 1946

Died: November 17, 2011 (aged 65)

Bio: Peter Reading was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres.

Known for:

Faunal (2002)
Marfan (2000)
-273.15 (2005)
Poems, 1985-1996 (1996)
Poems, 1970-1984 (1995)

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