Best Michael Ondaatje Sayings
- He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he… Bird
- We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… All
- all this Beethoven and rain All
- I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into… Days
- ...the heart is an organ of fire. Fire
- There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things… Betrayal
- Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between… Beauty
- You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with… Beautiful
- He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If… Accept
- What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter… Alter
- You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you… Betrayal
- She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product… Better
- She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Always Wanted
- For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is… Child
- I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love Century
- …Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… Alone
- I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of… All
- She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that… Always Taking
- A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out Blind
- But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past. Inspirational
- Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,… Biographical
- Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. Charting
- Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words… Another Language
- I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and… All
- All I ever wanted was a world without maps. All
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