Canadian Quotes and aphorisms about poems Irving Layton Patrick deWitt Michael Redhill Anne Carson ,, There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me... Robert Bringhurst ,, I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones... Cassie Steele Cassie Steele Al Purdy George Murray John Barton