134 Quotes by Louise Glück

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    Like a child, the earth’s going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I’m not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I’m tired.

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

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    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?

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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, so he says in the end You’re dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true.

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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.

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