Beauty Quote by Louise Glück

““It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.””

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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…

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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,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it.

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