English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Michael Ondaatje quotes about morning

Canadian Author, Writer, Poet September 12, 1943

Michael Ondaatje quotes in russian
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city. Michael Ondaatje
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, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart. Michael Ondaatje
In the morning she found pieces of a birdchopped and scattered by the fanblood sprayed onto the mosquito net, its body leaving paths on the wallslike red snails that drifted down in lumps. She could imagine the featherswhile she had sleptfalling around herlike slow rain. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if..."
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "Half a page --- and the morning is already ancient."
Half a page --- and the morning is already ancient. Michael Ondaatje

Popular Author

Related Authors