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> [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/)

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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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