Anne Michaels from "Infinite Gradation"
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— Anne Michaels, All We Saw: Poems
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Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
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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.
Anne Michaels
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The shortest poem is a name.
Anne Michaels, A Definition of Fiction and Poetry
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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.
Anne Michaels
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the ordinary world holds together
like the surface tension of water,
still and stretched, a splash of light.
Anne Michaels, from Re-Membering the (W)holes: Counter-memory, Collective Memory, and Bergsonian Time in Anne Michaels’ Miner’s Pond
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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.
Anne Michaels
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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.
Anne Michaels
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"Perhaps loneliness is the real proof that we belong to something greater than ourselves, the way absence is proof of what was once a presence."
- Anne Michaels, Infinite Gradation (@silentroad )
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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 the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.
— Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
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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.
Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault (McClelland & Stewart, April 16, 2009) (via Alive on All Channels)
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"Perhaps loneliness is the real proof that we belong to something greater than ourselves, the way absence is proof of what was once a presence.
- Anne Michaels, Infinite Gradation
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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.
Anne Michaels
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Like the moon, I want to touch places
just by looking.
Anne Michaels, Skin Divers
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