Earle Birney Quotes

• The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

  Earle Birney

  Voice, Poetry, Essentials

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• Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

  Earle Birney

  Time, Bears, Cold

  Earle Birney (2014). “The Essential Earle Birney”, p.52, The Porcupine's Quill

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• It is not easy to free
  myth from reality
  or rear this fellow up
  to lutch, lurch with them
  in the tranced dancing of men.

  Earle Birney

  Reality, Men, Dancing

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• Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance
  of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor
  cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp
  personal "truths" still emerging into perception.
  To grasp and to shape them.

  Earle Birney

  Art, Thinking, Perception

  Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal

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• The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

  Earle Birney

  Writing, Men, Vancouver

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