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Anne Michaels, born on April 15, 1958, is a renowned Canadian poet. Her works are known for their profound emotions and unique narrative style, which have won her a wide audience.

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All Fugitive Ifs Moments Enough Grief Love Thinking Blood Body Fate

Famous Anne Michaels Quotes

“History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.”

Two Moments Memories Space Share Events Time And Space History And Memory

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“History is the gradual instant”

Instant

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.”

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“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 of terror brushes the inside of your skull.”

Ifs Love Long Born Arms Lucky Terror Tails Brushes Skulls Unlucky Lucky You

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.”

Wanted Poetry Lines Pure Rain Awkward Orchestra Hollow Reeds

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.”

Knows Planets Arms Bird Lonely Distance Miles March Miles Apart

Author:Anne Michaels

“When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.”

Men Lasts Dies Secret Window Breaths Glasses Crystals Frost

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

About the Author

Born: April 15, 1958
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 57

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