5 Quotes by Earle Birney

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

Since we had always sky about,when we had eagles they flew outleaving no shadow bigger then wrens'to trouble our most aeromantic hens.Too busy bridging loneliness to be alonewe 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.

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

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

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.