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

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

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

“They say”

“The assignment was to fall in love.”

“Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as”

“Why love what you will lose?”

“first of all nothing will happen”

“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.”

“In this world”

“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,”

“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.”

“Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...”