Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Earle Birney

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian novelist Earle Birney.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Earle Alfred Birney was a Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honour, for his poetry.

Canadian - Novelist | May 13, 1904 - September 3, 1995

Source: Wikipedia

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

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