Quotes from Earle Birney

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.

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.

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

The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.

The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.

Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our most aeromantic hens. Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone. We French, we English, never lost our civil war, Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.

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

He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race, Parents unmarried and living abroad, relatives keen to bag the estate, schizophrenia not excluded, will he learn to grow up before it's too late?