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Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.
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We French, we English, never lost our civil war,
endure it still, a bloodless civil bore;
no wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted.
It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.
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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.
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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
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
Mary McCarthy
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)
Earle Birney on Wikipedia
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