“...whatever/ returns from oblivion/ returns to find a voice.” — Louise Glück Oblivion Copy Share Image
What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten. — Louise Glück Arrival Copy Share Image
“ She has the look of one who seeks some greater and destroying passion: ” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. — Louise Glück Despair 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
“Tell me this is the future, I won’t believe you. Tell me I’m living, I won’t believe you.” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present. — Louise Gluck Ace 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
I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations. — Louise Gluck Communication 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 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’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night the beloved body, compass, polestar, to hear the quiet breathing that says I am… — Louise Glück Companionship Copy Share Image
“Living things don't all require light in the same degree. Some of us make our own light: a silver leaf like a… — Louise Glück Alone 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
“It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to… — Louise Glück Beauty Copy Share Image
“Once I could imagine my soul I could imagine my death. When I imagined my death my soul died. This I remember… — Louise Glück Body 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 Copy Share Image
We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of… — Louise Gluck Appetite 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 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
“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
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
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end, not a… — Louise Glück Caution 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
“In his tent, Achilles grieved with his whole being and the gods saw he was a man already dead, a victim of… — Louise Glück Achilles 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 Copy Share Image
He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Lived to see you throwing Me aside. That fought like netted fish inside me. Saw you throbbing In my syrups. Saw you… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“All day I tried to distinguish need from desire. Now, in the dark, I feel only bitter sadness for us, the builders,… — Louise Glück Desire Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about. In this… — Louise Glück Presence Copy Share Image
