"Even as a child, even as my blood-past……" — Anne Michaels
"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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37 Quotes by Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels has 37 quotes on this site.
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The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
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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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The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography…
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The truth doesn't care what we think of it.
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History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.
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History is the gradual instant
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Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you…
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No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the…
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I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is…
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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…
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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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Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love.…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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