134 Quotes by Louise Glück

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    I had lives before this, stemsof a spray of flowers: they becameone thing, held by a ribbon at the center, a ribbonvisible under the hand. Above the hand, the branching future, stems ending in flowers. And the gripped fist—that would be the self in the present.from ‘Formaggio’ in ‘Vita Nova

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    In his tent, Achilles grieved with his whole being and the gods saw he was a man already dead, a victim of the part that loved, the part that was mortal.

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    At the great feast there is always the outsider, the stranger to joy...[from 'Morning']

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    ...always Staring at that man, hearing the click,Click of his brain's whirling empty spindle...[from 'Returning a Lost Child'}

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    Though the great soul is said to bea star, a beacon,what it resembles better is a diamond:in the whole world there is nothinghard enough to change it.[from 'Legend']

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    Had you died when we were togetherI would have wanted nothing of you.Now I think of you as dead, it is better....And you never say-Leave me-since the dead do not like being alone.[from 'The Fire']

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