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

--

Al Purdy

#Survival Quotes #Gravestone Quotes #Testimonial Quotes

“A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.”
“I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.”
“In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.”
“Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.”
“Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.”
“But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public”
“Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.”
“I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!”

You may also like:

Alden Nowlan
Poet
Earle Birney
Poet
Irving Layton
Poet
June Callwood
Journalist
Karen Kain
Ballet Dancer
Margaret Atwood
Poet
Michael Ondaatje
Novelist
P. K. Page
Poet
Peter Gzowski
Broadcaster