Poetry Quote by Al Purdy Download Open image “A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.” — Al Purdy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Survival Testimonial
Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die, — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined… — Ayokunle Falomo Copy Share Image
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act. — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the… — Jane Cooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke. — Al Purdy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
