Al Purdy Quotes

"'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival."
- Al Purdy
(Related: Survival, Poems)

"Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke."
- Al Purdy

"I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense."
- Al Purdy
(Related: God, Religious, Sense)

"I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world."
- Al Purdy
(Related: Trying, World)

"I started writing when I was about thirteen."
- Al Purdy
(Related: Writing)

"I don't think I do have a soul."
- Al Purdy
(Related: Soul)

"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
(Related: Flowers, Man)

"At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you."
- Al Purdy
(Related: Age, People, Will)