Louise Gluck
Louise Gluck
Louise Elisabeth Glückis an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 April 1943
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Louise Gluck quotes about
mourning intense intense-love
Intense love always leads to mourning.
moving writing doe
The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.
brain honor
Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.
goodbye saying-goodbye veils
To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.
dream soul speak
The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.
sister two dancer
Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
self mind answers
17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.
loneliness heart wind
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.
form
The love of form is a love of endings.
doors suffering ends
At the end of my suffering/there was a door.
winter thinking earth
I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?
travel memorable forgotten
What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.
heart mind trusted
That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind
winter should-have despair
You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.