Quotes by : Louise Glück

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

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....

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

(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....

A word drops into the mistlike a child's ball into high grasswhere it remains seductivelyflashing and....

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....

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