He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is… — Louise Glück Arms 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 Blight 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 Almonds 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
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
You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. — Louise Glück Despair Copy Share Image
What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten. — Louise Glück Difficult Copy Share Image
“ She has the look of one who seeks some greater and destroying passion: ” — Louise Glück Destructiveness Copy Share Image
“He knows he will be hurt. The warnings come to him in bed because repose threatens him” — Louise Glück Bed 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 had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added. — Louise Glück Changed 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
I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can… — Louise Glück Earth Copy Share Image
Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother… — Louise Glück Children Copy Share Image
“Tell me this is the future, I won’t believe you. Tell me I’m living, I won’t believe you.” — Louise Glück Faith 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
“The assignment was to fall in love. The details were up to you. The second part was to include in the poem… — Louise Glück Assignment Copy Share Image
“I am suspicious of my existing ideas, my conscious thoughts and convictions. They are what I need to get beyond, into ignorance… — Louise Glück Answers Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Closeness Copy Share Image
“ Come to me said the world. I was standing in my wool coat at a kind of bright portal— I can… — Louise Glück Beauty Copy Share Image
17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was:… — Louise Glück Answers 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
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
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
“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
“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
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. — Louise Glück Childhood 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 A good thing Copy Share Image
