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 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....

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,....

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

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....