Poetry Quote by Margaret Atwood — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.”

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”

““A truth should exist,”

“It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.”

“I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define.”

“Soft you day, be velvet soft,”

“a woman will tell you”

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

“If we surrendered”

“Silver hidden in the gold,”

“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting”