Desperate Kid Quotes by Al Purdy

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Al Purdy has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is…
• Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.

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