Robin Blaser Quotes & Sayings

Canada's most important
that is to say consequential
modern voice. — Robin Blaser

to know how tall a tree is
I must fall from the top;
that is,
desire burns. — Robin Blaser

I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
-Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967) — Robin Blaser