Al Purdy Quotes
- At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
- I don't think I do have a soul.
- A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
- I started writing when I was about thirteen.
- I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
- I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
- In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
- Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.…
- For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most…
- Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.