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Poetry Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
- I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
- I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to…
- When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many…
- I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
- Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
- Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you…
- Writing poetry is a state of free float.
- When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry…
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- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden