Michael Ondaatje Love Quotations

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

I promised to tell you how one falls in love.

There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.

...the heart is an organ of fire.

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

Love is the use one makes of another.

She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

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

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.

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.