"17. The self ended and the world began.……" — Louise Glück
"17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened."
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Louise Glück
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I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the…
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At the end of my suffering/there was a door.
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The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I…
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Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And…
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He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks…
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Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well…
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Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed…
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What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.
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Intense love always leads to mourning.
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To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.
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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
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The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.
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