Literary Birthday – 15 April – Anne Michaels

Happy Birthday, Anne Michaels, born on 15 April 1958.

Anne Michaels Quotes

1. Hold a book in your hand and you’re a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
2. 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.
3. The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
4. Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
5. The truth doesn’t care what we think of it.
6. To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Anne Michaels is an award-winning Canadian poet and novelist. She is is known internationally for the beauty and precision of her language and the depth of her philosophical themes. Her books have been translated into more than 45 languages. She has won many international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas (for her poetry collection, The Weight of Oranges). Her novel, Fugitive Pieces, won The Bailey’s Women’s Prize For Fiction, and was adapted for the screen in 2007. Michaels was the poet laureate of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 2016 to 2019. Her latest novel is Held.

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by Amanda Patterson

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