When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know - you can only hope - that what you're offering will …

- Anne Michaels

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

- Anne Michaels

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no m…

- Anne Michaels

The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things …

- Anne Michaels

...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.…

- Anne Michaels

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

- Anne Michaels

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across th…

- Anne Michaels

Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of ce…

- Anne Michaels

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

- Anne Michaels