"Reading a poem in translation is like kissing……" — Anne Michaels
"Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil."
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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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Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough…
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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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More Kissing Quotes
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I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a…
— Antonio Banderas
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
— Joey Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good,…
— Drew Barrymore
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
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The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
— Halle Berry
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our…
— Bono
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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