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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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Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of…
— Albert Einstein
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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
— Kenneth Burke
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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…
— Anne Michaels
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If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming…
— Paul Davies
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I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards…
— Paul Davies
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We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we…
— Paul Davies
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone…
— Adrienne Rich
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I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets.…
— Kerry Greenwood
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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