"Balm of the summer night, balm of the……" — Louise Glück
"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 be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?"
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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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At the end of my suffering/there was a door.
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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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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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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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