Quotes by Louise Glück

Louise Glück

17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn’t we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.

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Mind

Self

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.

Father

Lying

Mother

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

Certain

Firsts

Saws

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

Doors

Ends

Suffering

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

Joy

Night

Summer

Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

Birth

Hard

Loss

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.

Echoes

Heart

Loneliness

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

Childhood

Pain

He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie, so he says in the end You’re dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true.

Hurt

Love You

Lying

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

Brain

Honor

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Able

Age

Answers

Art

Birth

Brain

Brother

Certain

Childhood

Children

Costumes

Dancer

Desire

Despair

Doe

Doors

Dream

Earth

Echoes

Ends

Father

Feelings

Fire

Firsts

Forgotten

Form

Girl

Giving Up

Goodbye

Great Power

Great Things

Grief

Hard

Heart

Honor

Hunger

Hurt

Indifference

Intense

Intense Love

Joy

Lasts

Letting Go

Life Is

Light

Loneliness

Looks

Loss

Love You

Lying

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Quotes by Louise Glück

Louise Glück

17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn’t we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.

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

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

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

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.

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

He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie, so he says in the end You’re dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true.

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

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