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Top 20 Louise Glück Quotes (2025 Update)

Louise Glück Quote: “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”

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

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen...”

2. “I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen...”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”

3. “The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “Intense love always leads to mourning.”

4. “Intense love always leads to mourning.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.”

5. “Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “The unsaid, for me, exerts great power...”

6. “The unsaid, for me, exerts great power...”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.”

7. “The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.”

8. “From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.”

9. “What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.”

10. “The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “Birth, not death, is the hard loss.”

11. “Birth, not death, is the hard loss.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.”

12. “I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “Like a child, the earth’s going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I’m not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I’m tired.”

13. “Like a child, the earth’s going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I’m not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I’m tired.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “The love of form is a love of endings.”

15. “The love of form is a love of endings.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.”

16. “Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “To raise the veil. To see what you’re saying goodbye to.”

18. “To raise the veil. To see what you’re saying goodbye to.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived – what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?”

19. “Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived – what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”

20. “I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.”

21. “At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie, so he says in the end You’re dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true.”

22. “He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie, so he says in the end You’re dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true.”

— Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quote: “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?”

23. “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?”

— Louise Glück

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