Margaret Atwood Quotes About Poetry
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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.
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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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Writing poetry is a state of free float.
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poetry is where the language is renewed.
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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.
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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.
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