Louise Glück Quotes

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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 less able I was to…
• At the end of my suffering/there was a door.
• The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven…
• Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may…
• 17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we…
• He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie, so…
• Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could…
• Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo…
• What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.
• Intense love always leads to mourning.
• To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.
• We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
• The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.
• The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.
• From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.
• 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 utterly…
• At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.
• Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
• Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of death, to the…
• The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you…

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