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“The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those;
they govern me.”
― louise gluck

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
― Louise Gluck

“At first I saw you everywhere.
Now only in certain things,
at longer intervals.”
― Louise Glück

“Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.”
― Louise Glück, Descending Figure

“The Red Poppy

The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,
were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered.”
― Louise Gluck

“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”
― Robert Hass

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.”
― Stanley Kunitz

“O remember
In your narrowing dark hours
That more things move
Than blood in the heart.”
― Louise Bogan

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano