"Hold a book in your hand and you're……" — Anne Michaels

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the… - Anne Michaels

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

— Anne Michaels

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37 Quotes by Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough…
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography…
The truth doesn't care what we think of it.
History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.
History is the gradual instant
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you…
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the…
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is…
Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our…
When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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