"The shadow past is shaped by everything that……" — Anne Michaels
"The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst."
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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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