“ She has the look of one who seeks some greater and destroying passion: ” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten. — Louise Glück Arrival Copy Share Image
You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. — Louise Glück Despair Copy Share Image
The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last. — Louise Glück Advantage Copy Share Image
At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals. — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations. — Louise Gluck Communication Copy Share Image
“In his tent, Achilles grieved with his whole being and the gods saw he was a man already dead, a victim of… — Louise Glück Achilles Copy Share Image
From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved. — Louise Glück Childhood Copy Share Image
I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added. — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected. — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
“Dear friend, dear trembling partner, what surprises you most in what you feel, earth's radiance or your own delight? For me, always… — Louise Glück Dear friend Copy Share Image
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present. — Louise Gluck Ace Copy Share Image
“Lived to see you throwing Me aside. That fought like netted fish inside me. Saw you throbbing In my syrups. Saw you… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about. In this… — Louise Glück Presence Copy Share Image
“All day I tried to distinguish need from desire. Now, in the dark, I feel only bitter sadness for us, the builders,… — Louise Glück Desire Copy Share Image
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“I watched the first shoots like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart broken by the blight, the black spot… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Once I could imagine my soul I could imagine my death. When I imagined my death my soul died. This I remember… — Louise Glück Body Copy Share Image
“It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to… — Louise Glück Beauty Copy Share Image
“Celestial Music” I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally… — Louise Glück Celestial Copy Share Image
“I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end, not a… — Louise Glück Caution Copy Share Image
So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had… — Louise Glück Absolutes Copy Share Image
I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged… — Louise Glück Age Copy Share Image
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of… — Louise Glück Dark Copy Share Image
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“How heavy my mind is, filled with the past. Is there enough room for the world to penetrate? It must go somewhere,… — Louise Gluck Darkness Copy Share Image
“Siren I became a criminal when I fell in love. Before that I was a waitress. I didn't want to go to… — Louise Gluck Better person Copy Share Image
The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. — Louise Glück Feelings Copy Share Image
