Failure Quote by Lisel Mueller

“What can I say to convince you the Houses of Parliament dissolve night after night to become the fluid dream of the Thames? I…

— Lisel Mueller

I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the…

— Lisel Mueller

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that…

— Lisel Mueller

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English…

— Lisel Mueller

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

— Lisel Mueller

“By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the…

— Lisel Mueller

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

— Lisel Mueller

“Late Hours" On summer nights the world moves within earshot on the interstate with its swish and growl, and occasional siren that sends chills…

— Lisel Mueller

“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four…

— Lisel Mueller

“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children…

— Lisel Mueller

“I search the language for a word to tell you how red is red.”

— Lisel Mueller

“Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning…

— Lisel Mueller