you are not alone, the poem said, in the dark tunnel.
—Louise Glück
Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious, because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted. —Louise Glück
you are not alone, the poem said, in the dark tunnel.
—Louise Glück
What were the Greek ships on fire compared to this loss? In his tent, Achilles grieved with his whole being and the gods saw he was a man already dead, a victim of the part that loved, the part that was mortal.
Louis Glück
Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious, because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted. Louise Glück
“All hope is lost. We must return to where it was lost if we want to find it again.”
Louise Glück
My soul has been so fearful, so violent: forgive its brutality.
—Louise Glück, RIP
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whatever was left, that was ours for a while.
sunrise - louise glück
Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious, because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.
Louise Glück
“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.”
Louise Glück
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“The summer night glowed; in the field, fireflies were glinting. And for those who understood such things, the stars were sending messages”
— Louise Glück, from Midsummer in “Poems 1962-2012” (via adrasteiax)
Louise Glück
“The beloved doesn’t
need to live. The beloved
lives in the head.”
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“To get born, your body makes a pact with death, and from that moment, all it tries to do is cheat.”
Louise Glück, from A Slip of Paper
No matter what "you are not alone"
Louise Glück...remember this.
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Louise Glück, from Averno
Louise Glück, AVERNO