Louise Gluck quotes

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last. (Louise Gluck)
From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved. View quote
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Intense love always leads to mourning. View quote
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I preferred the simplest vocabulary. View quote
Louise Gluck
It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected. View quote
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I have no concern with widening audience. View quote
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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. View quote
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The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams. View quote
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Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations. (Louise Gluck)