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 ATWOODFarewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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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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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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Don’t misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it’s hard to put up with.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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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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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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