Quotes by : Anne Michaels

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers....

Misty is the color of rain on a window.

The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults.....

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather—storms, sunlight,....

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what....

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside....

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something....

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

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears....