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> [“Nothing in the past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about. In this new enactment, presence can replace absence, which is the best that can be managed in human time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/nothing-in-the-past-can-be-changed-or-restored-but-the-present-can/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

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## More by Louise Glück

> [The unsaid, for me, exerts great power...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/the-unsaid-for-me-exerts-great-power/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/without-thinking-i-knelt-in-the-grass-like-someone-meaning-to-pray/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/what-i-responded-to-on-the-page-was-the-way-a-poem-could-liberate-by/)

[Louise Gluck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. from Nostos.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/we-look-at-the-world-once-in-childhood-the-rest-is-memory-from-nostos/)

[Louise Gluck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/he-takes-her-in-his-arms-he-wants-to-say-i-love-you-nothing-can-hurt/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/at-first-i-saw-you-everywhere-now-only-in-certain-things-at-longer/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/desire-loneliness-wind-in-the-flowering-almond-surely-these-are-the/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [“They sat far apart deliberately, to experience, daily, the sweetness of seeing each other across great distance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/they-sat-far-apart-deliberately-to-experience-daily-the-sweetness-of/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/toward-his-critics-the-artist-harbors-a-defensive-ace-knowledge-that/)

[Louise Gluck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/i-m-like-the-child-who-buries-her-head-in-the-pillow-so-as-not-to-see/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/i-am-attracted-to-ellipsis-to-the-unsaid-to-suggestion-to-eloquent/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [“Once I could imagine my soul I could imagine my death. When I imagined my death my soul died. This I remember clearly. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/once-i-could-imagine-my-soul-i-could-imagine-my-death-when-i-imagined/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/i-caution-you-as-i-was-never-cautioned-you-will-never-let-go-you-will/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/as-i-saw-it-all-my-mother-s-life-my-father-held-her-down-like-lead/)

[Louise Glück](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

> [I preferred the simplest vocabulary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-gl-ck/i-preferred-the-simplest-vocabulary/)

[Louise Gluck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-gl-ck/)

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