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Anne Michaels est une romancière et poète canadienne, née le 15 avril 1958 à Toronto.

✵ 15. avril 1958
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Anne Michaels: Citations en anglais

“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief… is the weight of a sleeping child.”

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Anne Michaels livre Fugitive Pieces

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“Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.”

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“If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.”

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“Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.”

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“Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.”

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Anne Michaels livre Fugitive Pieces

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“Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.”

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“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.”

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“… when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.”

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“Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.”

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“Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather—storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history, which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.”

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Anne Michaels livre Fugitive Pieces

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“I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.”

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“Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.”

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“Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.”

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