Margaret Atwood Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Sleep, Air

  "Variation on theWord Sleep" l. 27 (1981)

• Writing poetry is a state of free float.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Poetry, States

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

• A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ignorance, Poetry, Dignity

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

• The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

  Margaret Atwood

  Truth, Doors, Poetry

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

• poetry is where the language is renewed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Poetry, Language, Poetry Is

• I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Poetry, Tasks, Criticize

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