I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
MARGARET ATWOODI 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.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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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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These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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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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I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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