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

“Birth, not death, is the hard loss.”

“They say”

“Why love what you will lose?”

“The master said”

“Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as”

“The assignment was to fall in love.”

“Fascists always attack minorities,”

“I had embraced you...”

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”

“How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?”

“Only poetry isn't shit.”

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”