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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Michael Ondaatje quotes

Canadian Author, Writer, Poet September 12, 1943

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Michael Ondaatje quote: "Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words..."
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. Michael Ondaatje
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. Michael Ondaatje
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime..."
I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "As if this collection of things is what she is. So we fall in..."
As if this collection of things is what she is. So we fall in love with ghosts. Michael Ondaatje
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "I promised to tell you how one falls in love."
I promised to tell you how one falls in love. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled."
How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them...."
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "I thought I was being loved because I was being altered."
I thought I was being loved because I was being altered. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out"
A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out Michael Ondaatje
But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn't understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot - see his music was immediately on top of his own life. Echoing. As if, when he was playing he was lost and hunting for the right accidental notes. Listening to him was like talking to Coleman. You were both changing direction with every sentence, sometimes in the middle, using each other as a springboard through... Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized"
How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized Michael Ondaatje
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. Michael Ondaatje
it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a school teacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by. Michael Ondaatje

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