"At the end of my suffering/there was a…" — Louise Glück
"At the end of my suffering/there was a door."
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Louise Glück
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28 Quotes by 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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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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17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The…
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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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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl…
— Tyra Banks
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
— Drew Barrymore
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
— John Barrymore
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology…
— Bob Beauprez
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
— Saul Bellow
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take…
— Robert Benchley
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
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