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

#7. Out similar characteristics in everyone. For example, law students were undisciplined and competitive, medical students strict and lacking a sense of humor, philosophy

Donato Carrisi

#8. Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#10. You know only insofar as you can measure.

Lord Kelvin

#11. It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Jeff Goldblum

#12. My God
life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?'
'Don't try,' he said. 'Just pretend you understand.'
'That's
that's very good advice.' I went limp.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it.

Ed Strachar