Al Purdy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.”
-- Al Purdy

#Survival #Gravestone #Testimonial

“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

#Time #Fall #Autumn

“At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.”
-- Al Purdy

#People #Age #Uncertain

“I don't think I do have a soul.”
-- Al Purdy

#Thinking #Soul

“I started writing when I was about thirteen.”
-- Al Purdy

#Writing #Thirteen

“I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.”
-- Al Purdy

#Unhappy #Trying #World

“I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.”
-- Al Purdy

#Religious #Formal

“In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.”
-- Al Purdy

#Kids #Mind #Desperate