Anne Michaels Quotes - Page 2

• Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

  Anne Michaels

  Reading, Kissing, Veils

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• The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

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  Rain, Past, Shadow

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.17, Emblem Editions

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• Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

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  Lonely, Distance, Bird

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• History is the gradual instant

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  Instantáneo

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.77, Emblem Editions

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• Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

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  World, Ghost, Enough

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.78, A&C Black

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• ...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

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  Spiritual, Pain, Decision

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.210, Emblem Editions

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• Cuando mis padres fueron liberados, cuatro años antes de que yo naciera, se encontraron con que el mundo ordinario fuera del campo había sido erradicado. Ya no había comida sencilla, ninguna cosa era menos que extraordinaria: un tenedor, un colchón, una camisa limpia, un libro. Por no hablar de las cosas que pueden hacer llorar: una naranja, carne y verduras, agua caliente. No había ordinariez a la que volver, ningún refugio contra la potencia cegadora de las cosas, una manzana gritando su dulce zumo.

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  Gratitude, Sweet, Book

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• The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see.

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  Running, Mistake, Wine

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• Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

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  Strong, Children, Past

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.20, Emblem Editions

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• Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

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  War, Stalking, Contradiction

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.73, A&C Black

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• When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

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  Men, Glasses, Secret

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.114, Emblem Editions

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