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

#7. Work is the best method devised for killing time.

William Feather

#8. The addiction to the Soviet myth is as tenacious and difficult to cure as any other addiction.

Arthur Koestler

#9. Loving broken people when it is inconvenient is the way to have fuller inclusion in the life of Christ. Teach

Ann Voskamp

#10. The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

Allan Kaprow

#11. He'd said when. Even in his beaten condition, he believed in whens and not ifs. She never should have doubted his strength

Veronica Rossi

#12. When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There's a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

Yasmin Mogahed

#13. Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

Ilka Chase

#14. It's amazing how far you're willing to go when someone believes in you

Katie Kacvinsky

#15. If coffee didn't exist, somebody would have to invent it for me very soon.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#16. My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

Carles Puyol

#17. Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don't become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.

Harley King

#18. I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.

Debbie Harry

#19. Memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

Elizabeth Bowen

#20. The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

Woody Harrelson

#21. The stench that surrounded me suggested that the tarp over my face had been previously used either to transport fertiliser or as toilet paper.

Annabel Monaghan