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

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”

“The assignment was to fall in love.”

“Gretel in Darkness:”

“Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as”

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

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

“Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,”

“Once in a golden hour”

“Immortal amarant, a flower which once”

“So very lovely”

“Kill what you can't save”

“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation.”