There is no fool like an educated fool.
MARGARET ATWOODVictorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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I don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
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The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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I did … learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it’s about your friends, a plot element if it’s about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it’s about John Keats.
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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
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I walk away from him. It’s enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It’s like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
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