Poetry Quote by Louise Glück — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond—”

“I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations”

“It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world.”

“Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary,”

“Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive.”

“I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem”

“Not with a club, the Heart is broken”

“The blood jet is poetry,”

“I don’t need your praise”

“In the dark I rest,”

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”

“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -”