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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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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the…
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
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A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
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Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to…
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We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin…
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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
— Joseph Stalin
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Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a…
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