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Anne Michaels has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 to accept…
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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 of longing.…
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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 choose how…
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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 long tail…
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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…
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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 short arms…
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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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The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new…
— John Haynes Holmes
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LIFE IS A DIVINE GIFT. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center; it is…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every…
— Winston Churchill
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The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the…
— Wyndham Lewis
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When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all…
— Anne Michaels
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