Quotes by : Louise Glück

Living things don't all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light: a silver leaflike....

I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations of time as a continuum, as something coming....

Once I could imagine my soulI could imagine my death.When I imagined my deathmy soul died. ThisI remember....

You’re not a creature in body.You exist as the stars exist,participating in their stillness, their....

It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore....

(after many years) we were still at that first stage, stillpreparing to begin a journey, but we were....

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

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles.She wasbuoyant....

I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I....

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary,imperial joy and sorrow of human existence,the dreamed....