Al Purdy Quotes

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

  Al Purdy

  Survival, Gravestone, Testimonial

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• 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 lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

  Al Purdy

  Beer, Drunk, Floating

  Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• 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. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

  Al Purdy

  Tiempo, Otoño

  1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).

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

  Al Purdy

  People, Age, Uncertain

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• I started writing when I was about thirteen.

  Al Purdy

  Writing, Outkast, Thirteen

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• I don't think I do have a soul.

  Al Purdy

  Thinking, Soul

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• I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

  Al Purdy

  Atheism, Unhappy, Trying

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

  Al Purdy

  Religious, Formal

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

  Al Purdy

  Kids, Mind, Desperate

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