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 sho…

- Al Purdy

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

- Al Purdy

I don't think I do have a soul.

- Al Purdy

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

- Al Purdy

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

- Al Purdy

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

- Al Purdy

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

- 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 t…

- Al Purdy

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

- Al Purdy