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

“She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are:”

“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”

“The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.”

“Kill what you can't save”

“The Chorus Line:”

“You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.”

“I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.”

“Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.”

“At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,”

“How can the bird that is born for joy”

“People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;”

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,”