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  • Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - 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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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.

Margaret Atwood

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?

    Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.

    If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

    There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.

    Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - In the end, we’ll all become stories.

    In the end, we’ll all become stories.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

    When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.

    I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be.

    Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

    Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.

    Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

    It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

    I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

    MARGARET ATWOOD