Best Michael Ondaatje Words
- When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives… Army
- Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert. Been
- I promised to tell you how one falls in love. Fall
- A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,… Absence
- We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders. Aliens
- Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean… All
- All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. All
- ...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. Art
- Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her,… Any
- Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. Anecdote
- If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get… Bed
- He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could… Emotion
- when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light… Alter
- There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at… Border
- she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud. Hinted
- Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she… Brave
- Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth. Cans
- For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places. Echo
- The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be. All
- In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. Absence
- I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you. Funny
- Death means you are in the third person. Death
- ... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. Among
- He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. Clicking
- What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Happens
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