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Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quotes

Total quotes: 4

Louise Glück

Birthname

Birthday: April 22, 1943

Educated At: Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Writer, Poet

Total quotes: 4

“I pretended indifference
even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger.
And the more deeply I felt
the less able I was to respond.”

— Louise Glück, Vita Nova

Tagged: Conformity, Conforming, societal standards, poem, Poetry

“You get on a train, you disappear.
You write your name on the window, you disappear.
There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.”

— Louise Glück, Averno

Tagged: Escapism, Get Away, Growing Pains, Self Discovery, Poetry

“For the reader, a work of art can make a kind of mantra: by giving form to devastation, the poem rescues the reader from a darkness without shape or gravity; it is an island in a free fall; it becomes his companion in grief, his rescuer, a proof that suffering can be made somehow to yield meaning.”

— Louise Glück, American Originality: Essays on Poetry; “The Culture of Healing,”

Tagged: Bookworm, Reader, Writing Tips, Writer Quotes, Poetry Lover, Book Lover, Good writing

“I know
intense love always leads to mourning.”

— Louise Glück, Triumph of Achilles

Tagged: Intense Love, Mourning

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