10+ Al Purdy Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Al Purdy quotes and sayings.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. — Al Purdy

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense. — Al Purdy

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

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

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. — Al Purdy

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. — Al Purdy

I started writing when I was about thirteen. — Al Purdy

I don't think I do have a soul. — Al Purdy

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

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