Top 9 Quotes by Al Purdy

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

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

Survival, Gravestone, Testimonial

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

Beer, Drunk, Floating

Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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

1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).