Anne Michaels Quotes About Rain

• The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

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  Rain   Past   Shadow  

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.17, Emblem Editions

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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. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

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  Rain   Past   Names  

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

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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 to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

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  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.112, Emblem Editions

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