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Al Purdy

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

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A.E. Samaan

"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."

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A.E. Samaan

"Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?"

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A.E. Samaan

"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."

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A.E. Samaan

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

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"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."

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A.E. Samaan

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

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A.E. Samaan

"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."

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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

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A.E. Samaan

"If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!""

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"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

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Al Purdy
"'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival."

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Al Purdy
"In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid."

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Al Purdy
"I don't think I do have a soul."

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Al Purdy
"At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you."

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Al Purdy
"I started writing when I was about thirteen."

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Al Purdy
"I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense."

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Al Purdy
"I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world."

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Al Purdy
"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

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