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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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Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual…
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
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Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
— J. Nozipo Maraire
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Drama often obscures the real issues
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To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to…
— Joanne Stepaniak
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Hatred obscures all distinctions.
— C.S. Lewis
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The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
— Mark Epstein
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality…
— Byron Katie
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