Once a thing's painted it's calm, and I thought, even if it shows a massacre of the innocents, the blade is still lifted, the blood isn't on the floor. I'd been particularly struck by this ridiculous little saint in San Gemignano who lay down on a plank aged fifteen and never got off it again, the saint of the town. And I thought, one's own body, one hopes, will be as calm as possible, and that's the calm country we actually live in rather than the other country.

Famous Quotes / Peter Porter

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Peter Porter: "Once a thing's painted it's calm, and I thought, even if it shows a massacre of the innocents, the blade is still lifted, the blood isn't on the floor. I'd been particularly struck by this ridiculous little saint in San Gemignano who lay down on a plank aged fifteen and never got off it again, the saint of the town. And I thought, one's own body, one hopes, will be as calm as possible, and that's the calm country we actually live in rather than the other country."

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Actually	Again	Aged	Blade
Blood	Body	Calm	Country
Down	Even	Fifteen	Floor
Gemignano	Hopes	Innocents	Isnt
Lifted	Little	Live	Massacre
Once	Ones	Other	Painted
Particularly	Plank	Possible	Rather
Ridiculous	Saint	Shows	Still
Struck	Thats	Things	Thought
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Once a thing's painted it's calm, and I thought, even if it shows a massacre of the innocents, the blade is still lifted, the blood isn't on the floor. I'd been particularly struck by this ridiculous little saint in San Gemignano who lay down on a plank aged fifteen and never got off it again, the saint of the town. And I thought, one's own body, one hopes, will be as calm as possible, and that's the calm country we actually live in rather than the other country. - Peter Porter