There was a time in my life during which I was mesmerized by Michael Ondaatje. I remember having an Ondaatje evening with Rachel Wojdak , somewhere in the year 2000. We shared our Ondaatje quotations the whole evening. I was really obsessive. I like his poems a lot more than his novels. Here are some of the quotes from his poetry collection:
Kissing the stomach
Kissing your scarred
Skin boat. History
Is what you’ve traveled on
And take with you
We’ve each had our stomachs
Kissed by strangers
To the other
And as for me
I bless everyone
Who kissed you here.
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At such times – no talking
No conclusion in the heart
I buy postage
Seal this
And send it a thousand miles, thinking.
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‘A sheet of water near your breast
Where I can sink
Like a stone’
Paul Eluard
Joanno
1 comment:
How can you say you like his poems more than his novels! His novels *are* poems, are they not?
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