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Type: Poet Quotes Category: Canadian Poet Quotes Date of Birth: December 30, 1918 Date of Death: April 21, 2000 Nationality: Canadian Find on Amazon: Al Purdy Related Authors: John Barton George Murray Irving Layton Frank Scott Bliss Carman Louis Dudek John McCrae Alden Nowlan |
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
Al Purdy At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. 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 most vividly and perfectly alive. Al Purdy I don't think I do have a soul. Al Purdy I started writing when I was about thirteen. Al Purdy I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. Al Purdy I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense. Al Purdy In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. 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 |
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