Louise Glück Quotes
The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.
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.
From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.
I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—
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
That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind
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?
I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.
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?
