Quotes by : Louise Glück

It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.

The Triumph Of AchillesIn the story of Patroclusno one survives, not even Achilleswho was nearly a god.Patroclus....

Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.

Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking....

Gretel in Darkness:This is the world we wanted.All who would have seen us deadare dead. I hear the witch's....

The books [poetry collections] may not sell, but neither are they given away or thrown away. They tend,....

You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with....

Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I....

Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond—surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjectsto....

I think here I will leave you. It has come to seemthere is no perfect ending.Indeed, there are infinite....