Grief Quote by Louise Glück

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power...

— Louise Glück

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…

— Louise Glück

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing,…

— Louise Gluck

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

— Louise Gluck

He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie,…

— Louise Glück

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

— Louise Glück

Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them…

— Louise Glück

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

— Louise Glück

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

— Louise Gluck

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes…

— Louise Glück

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

— Louise Glück

“Once I could imagine my soul I could imagine my death. When I imagined my death my soul died. This I remember clearly. My…

— Louise Glück