Canadian Author Quotes

O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.

Charles G. D. Roberts

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

George McWhirter

The white man had come with the Bible in one hand, the bottle in the other.

E. Pauline Johnson

We consider the artist a special sort of person. It is more likely that each of us is a special sort of artist.

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.

I have learned little from the years that fly;
But I have wrung the color from the years.

Francis Pollock

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.

Phyllis Gotlieb

Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

Nicole Brossard

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.