134 Quotes by Louise Glück
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You die when your spirit dies. Otherwise, you live.You may not do a good job of it, but you go on--something you have no choice about.
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Living things don't all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light: a silver leaflike a path no one can use, a shallowlake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.But you know this already.You and the others who thinkyou live for truth and, by extension, loveall that is cold.
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We don't expect to know what Persephone is doing. She is dead, the dead are mysteries.
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I remember the word for chair.I want to say--I'm just not interested anymore.I wake up thinking you have to prepare.Soon the spirit will give up--all the chairs in the world won't help you.
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We look at the world once, in childhood.The rest is memory
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Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish youit will not keep you alive.
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I expected better of two creatures who were given minds: if not that you would actually care for each otherat least that you would understandgrief is distributedbetween you, among all your kind
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I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--
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What was my crime in another life, as in this life my crime is sorrow
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