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....

We look at the world once, in childhood.The rest is memory

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

(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....

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

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....