Top 6 Earle Birney Quotes
#1. The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
Earle Birney
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.
Earle Birney
#6. Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.
Earle Birney
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