Canadian Poetry Quotes

#1. Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

Clarice Lispector

#2. We accept the kind of love we think we deserve.

Ruthie Dean

#3. Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. When you get too involved with people, you're forced to feel what they're feeling

Elizabeth Lee

#5. I bet you think things through, right? Accept candy
from strangers and get into vans with a sign that reads free Kittens?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Chris Pittaro is the best rookie I've had in 15 years.

Sparky Anderson

#7. When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.

Maria Callas

#8. I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Josh Billings

#9. I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human Understanding and also we want to sell as many books as possible to adolescent boys.

Dave Barry

#10. There's a land - oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back - and I will.

Robert Service

#11. We are only allowed to live
due to some colossal misunderstanding.

Jeramy Dodds

#12. It is difficulties that show what men are.

Epictetus

#13. Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

Mother Teresa

#14. In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,
Malnourished poems that professors love;
The bad grammar and dirty words that catch
In the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.
Pablo, your words are rain I run through,
Grass I sleep in.

George Elliott Clarke

#15. The moon twangs its silver strings;
The river swoons into town;
The wind beds down in the pines,
Covers itself with stars.

George Elliott Clarke

#16. Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

Shane Koyczan

#17. The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Susanna Moodie

#18. Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

James Henry Breasted