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“The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.” quote by Anne Michaels — Download Open image

““The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.””

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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…

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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…

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I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God.…

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Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

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“I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.”

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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…

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It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…

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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

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To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

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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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“History is the love that enters us through death.”

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If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm…

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The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been…

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