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

“If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.”

“The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.”

“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”

“They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.”

“Screw poetry, it's you I want,”

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

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“I heard a bird congratulating itself”

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

“The way we are living,”

“Here”

“July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.”