Anne Hebert Quotes

Canada, Author
August 1, 1916 – January, 22, 2000.

Anne Hébert, CC OQ, was a French Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.

Also known as Poet

That’s what it means to be out of your mind. To let yourself be carried away by a dream. To give it room, let it grow wild and thick, until it overruns you.

Anne Hebert
- Mind
- Dream
- Means
Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

Anne Hebert
- Poetry
- Lived
- Explained

I steal a glance when no one is looking. Especially at his neck, when he turns to say something to my mother. That slender neck, with its air of determination, brisk and bold…

Anne Hebert
- Neck
- Glance
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

Anne Hebert
- Poetry
- Colors
- Sensations
I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Anne Hebert
- Believe
- Poetry
- Solitude
And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husband’s arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.

Anne Hebert
- Move
- Elegant
- Bride
My love, I'm here. I'll wait my whole life through until you're done, there in the cove at Kamouraska. Until you wash your blood-soaked hands and make your way back to me.

Anne Hebert
- Life
- Love
- Wait