List of Anne Michaels Quotes

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Anne Michaels
Total Quotes 36
When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. his last breath obscures the glass.
Men Glasses Secret
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.
Strong Children Past
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.
Running Mistake Wine
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. something tolerated soon becomes something good.
War Stalking Contradiction
The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “memoriam
Mouths Starving
When my parents were liberated, four years before i was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. there was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. there was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.
Gratitude Sweet Book
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to god. but all i achieved was awkward shrieking. not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.
Rain Poetry Awkward
...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.
Spiritual Pain Decision
History is the gradual instant
Instant
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.
World Ghost Enough
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
Rain Past Shadow
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.
Lonely Distance Bird
  • Born: April 15, 1958
  • Occupation: Poet
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