"It seems to me that the desire to……" — Louise Glück
"It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away."
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28 Quotes by Louise Glück
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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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