Peter Porter Quote

I mean, one of the great problems of the 20th century has been that the poets recognising that there's a lack of seriouness in the world and turned themselves to a certain degree, to be stand up comedians, even the best of them. Now in the 60's and the 70's in England anyway, I'm not sure about Australia and America, the poet as a stand up comedian became practically, the sort of style of the time.