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

“Of two sisters”

“Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night”

“How heavy my mind is,”

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

“You die when your spirit dies.”

“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.”

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”

“Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égaye-t-il pas un peu ces navrants paysages ? Tout Bacchus est là ; Bacchus, chanté avec tant de constance par nos poètes ébriolants. Bacchus ne peut-il rasséréner ces horizons en deuil ? ou faut-il croire que Bacchus lui-même, ennemi de l’eau, est incommodé par le voisinage de la rivière ?”

“My whole being is a dark chant”

“She's a tangled mess of wild- a forest nymph, a goddess child. She's like the seductive sea - feral and fierce, calm and serene. She's the starfish swimming in my soul, the woman child who keeps me sane, who keeps me whole.”

“I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.”