Neighbours Quotes by Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

— Al Purdy

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

— Al Purdy

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard…

— Al Purdy

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

— Al Purdy

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

— Al Purdy

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a…

— Al Purdy

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

— Al Purdy

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.

— Al Purdy

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be…

— Al Purdy

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

— Al Purdy

I don't think I do have a soul.

— Al Purdy