Margaret Atwood Quotes - Page 1

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Toast is me. I am toast.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Her glass wings are gone.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The past is a closed door.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I'm bad at picking heroes.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Snowman wakes before dawn.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Love's never a fair trade.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I tell, therefore you are.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

a handful of crumpled stars

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Potential has a shelf life.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I grew up amongst biologists.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I feel like the word shatter.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

To want is to have a weakness.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Fear has a smell, as love does.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Yelling is a form of publishing

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Not real can tell us about real.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

A language is everything you do.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

We understand more than we know.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Gardening is not a rational act.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Life's not fair; why should I be?

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Canada was built on dead beavers.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

friendship was always contingent.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Support your libraries... or else!

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

It is better to hope than to mope!

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

There is never only one, of anyone

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

expectation isn't the same as desire

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Why do men feel threatened by women?

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

In the end, we'll all become stories.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The bell that measures time is ringing

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Powerlessness and silence go together.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

What you get is no longer what you see.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

There is no fool like an educated fool.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

War is what happens when language fails.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

poetry is where the language is renewed.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

So much better to travel than to arrive.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

we lived in the gaps between the stories

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The internet is 95 percent porn and spam

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

My good intentions are completely lethal.