Louise Glück Quotes

• We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

  Louise Glück

  Memories, Childhood, Looks

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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 an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.

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  Vocabulary, Silence, Wish

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• The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

  Louise Glück

  Dream, Soul, Speak

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• At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

  Louise Glück

  Doors, Suffering, Ends

  "Wild Iris". Book by Louise Glück, therumpus.net. November 1, 1993.

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

  Louise Glück

  Pain, Childhood

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• The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

  Louise Glück

  May, Lasts, Life Is

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• The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

  Louise Glück

  Moving, Writing, Doe

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• Intense love always leads to mourning.

  Louise Glück

  Mourning, Intense, Intense Love

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• What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.

  Louise Glück

  Travel, Memorable, Forgotten

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• Me parece que el deseo de hacer arte produce una experiencia continua de anhelo, una inquietud que a veces, pero no inevitablemente, se manifiesta romántica o sexualmente. Siempre parece haber algo más adelante, el siguiente poema o historia, visible, al menos, aprehensible, pero inalcanzable. Percibirlo en absoluto es ser perseguido por él; algún sonido, algún tono, se convierte en un tormento; el poema que encarna ese sonido parece existir en algún lugar ya terminado. Es como un faro, salvo que, cuando uno nada hacia él, retrocede.

  Louise Glück

  Art, Swim, Desire

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• Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

  Louise Glück

  Brain, Honor

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• The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

  Louise Glück

  Writing, Unsaid, Great Power

  "Disruption, Hesitation, Silence". Article by Louise Glück, The American Poetry Review, Volume 22, No. 5, pp. 30-32, www.jstor.org. September-October 1993.

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• That's why I'm not to be trusted.
  Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind

  Louise Glück

  Heart, Mind, Trusted

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• De dos hermanas una es siempre la observadora, la otra la bailarina.

  Louise Glück

  Sister, Two, Dancer

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• I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth-- Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you. It will not keep you alive.

  Louise Glück

  Letting Go, Sublime, Age

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• Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

  Louise Glück

  Loss, Birth, Hard

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• You know
  what despair is; then
  winter should have meaning for you.

  Louise Glück

  Winter, Should Have, Despair

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• I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

  Louise Glück

  Able, Indifference, Hunger

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

  Louise Glück

  Saws, Firsts, Certain

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• To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.

  Louise Glück

  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Veils

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• As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change.

  Louise Glück

  Mother, Lying, Father

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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 sadness—

  Louise Glück

  Children, Sadness, Light

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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 echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.

  Louise Glück

  Loneliness, Heart, Echoes

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• The love of form is a love of endings.

  Louise Glück

  Formulario

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• The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.

  Louise Glück

  Feelings, Mind, Great Things

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