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
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What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
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We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding.
I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.
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It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
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Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.