Al Purdy Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#24da45c3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#ca0af193

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#d692b9b2

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#5fd94287

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#ba79d4fb

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#a3df562f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#1dcb283e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#0b1ae189

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/al-purdy-quotes/#a977055d

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