Quote of the day
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
Al Purdy

Born: December 30, 1918
Died: April 21, 2000 (aged 81)
Bio: Alfred Wellington Purdy was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years.
Known for:
- Beyond remembering (2000)
- A splinter in the heart (1990)
- Poems for all the Annettes (1962)
- Reaching for the Beaufort Sea (1993)
- Rooms for rent in the outer planets (1996)






