Quotes by : Michael Ondaatje

The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. You can't fuck yourself into....

Across the valley, a waterfall stumbles down. In a month or two the really hard rains will come down....

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person....

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

the heart is an organ of fire

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox....

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was....

I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian,....