121 Quotes by Anne Michaels

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 in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it's a labor of love, and it's the nature of love that you must give it freely.

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

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

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.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

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

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

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.