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

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”

“What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.”

“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?”

“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”

“This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.”

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

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,”

“I could've been your everything”

“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”

“It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.”

“Moonlight and high wind.”

“A Note”