We are full of anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off. And we behave worse in other countries.
Michael OndaatjeWhat is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
Michael OndaatjeTags: power reflective thoughtful pensive
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
Michael OndaatjeTags: love loss memory longing
As if this collection of things is what she is. So we fall in love with ghosts.
Michael OndaatjeHow does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
Michael OndaatjeTags: love english-patient ondaatje
...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.
Michael OndaatjeTags: youth travel-writing
How can she who had torn his heart open at the waterworks with her art lie now like a human in his arms? Or stand catatonic in front of bananas on Eastern Avenue deciding which bunch to buy? Does this make her more magical? As if a fabulous heron in flight has fallen dead at his feet and he sees the further wonder of its meticulous construction. How did someone conceive of putting this structure of bones and feathers together, deciding on the weight of beak and skull, and give it the ability to fly?
Michael Ondaatje...record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song.
Michael OndaatjeSleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.
Michael OndaatjeRead him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is a writer who used pen and ink. He looked up from the page a lot, I believe, stared through his window and listened to birds, as most writers who are alone do. Some do not know the names of birds, though he did. Your eye is too quick and North American. Think about the speed of his pen. What an appalling, barnacled old first paragraph it is otherwise.
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