10 Quotes by Louise Glück about love
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Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the nightthe beloved body, compass, polestar,to hear the quiet breathing that saysI am alive, that means alsoyou are alive, because you hear me,you are here with me.
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Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world.
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The assignment was to fall in love.The details were up to you.The second part wasto include in the poem certain words,words drawn from a specific texton another subject altogether.
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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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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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You grew up, you were struck by lightning.When you opened your eyes, you were wired forever to your true love.It only happened once. Then you were taken care of,your story was finished.
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You lay beside me; your hand moved over my faceas though you had felt it also—you must have known, then, how I wanted you.We will always know that, you and I.The proof will be my body.
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Watching youstare into space in the tidyrows of the vegetable garden, ostensiblyworking hard while actuallydoing the worst job possible, I thinkyou are a small irritating purple thingand I would like to see you walk off the face of the earthbecause you are all that's wrong with my lifeand I need you and I claim you.
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Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.
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