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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's Popular Quotes

Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does …

- Louise GlüCk

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

- Louise GlüCk

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—

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

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

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

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At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

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

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Intense love always leads to mourning.

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