Quote of the day
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Earle Birney

Born: May 13, 1904
Died: September 3, 1995 (aged 91)
Bio: Earle Alfred Birney was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.
Known for:
- Turvey : a military picaresque (1949)
- One Muddy Hand
- Essays on Chaucerian irony (1985)
- The Essential Earle Birney
- Fall by fury, & other makings (1978)






