Childhood Quote by Louise Glück

“From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.”

Louise Glück

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“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. from Nostos.”

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At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

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“They sat far apart deliberately, to experience, daily, the sweetness of seeing each other across great distance.”

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Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

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I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish…

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