Al Purdy Quotes

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

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

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

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

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

I don't think I do have a soul.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.