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Margaret Atwood Quotes about Poetry

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poetry is where the language is renewed.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Margaret Atwood
Poetry, Language, Poetry Is

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”

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

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.

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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