Earle Birney Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.”
-- Earle Birney

#Time Quotes #Bears Quotes #Cold Quotes
“The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.”
-- Earle Birney

#Voice Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Essentials Quotes
“The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.”
-- Earle Birney

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Vancouver Quotes
“It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.”
-- Earle Birney

#Reality Quotes #Men Quotes #Dancing Quotes
“Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.”
-- Earle Birney

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Perception Quotes

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