Al Purdy quotes
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“A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.”
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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 PurdySource : 1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).
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“At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.”
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“I started writing when I was about thirteen.”
-- Al PurdySource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.”
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“I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.”
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“In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.”
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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 PurdySource : Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
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