Transubstantiation Quotes by Anne Michaels

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• The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
• Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept…
• Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
• The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing.…
• The truth doesn't care what we think of it.
• History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.
• History is the gradual instant
• Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how…
• 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…
• I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call…
• Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms…
• When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

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