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 more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.
Anne MichaelsIf love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.
Anne MichaelsLa propia ignorancia sigue creciendo precisamente al mismo ritmo que la propia experiencia.
Anne MichaelsNos convertimos en nosotros mismos cuando algo nos es concedido o cuando algo nos es arrebatado
Anne MichaelsTodo lo que hay en este mundo es lo que ha quedado atrás.
Anne MichaelsReading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.
Anne MichaelsI'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.
Anne MichaelsEven as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.
Anne MichaelsImportant lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
Anne MichaelsLike other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.
Anne MichaelsTag: past-and-future
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