Louise Glück

Louise Elisabeth Glück was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".
years of life: 22 April 1943 13 October 2023

Quotes

Rafael Narvalhas quoted2 years ago
This is why we search for love.
We search for it all of our lives,
even after we find it.
Rafael Narvalhas quoted2 years ago
Outside the car, the cows and pastures are drifting away;
they look calm, but calm is not the truth.
Despair is the truth. This is what
mother and father know. All hope is lost.
Rafael Narvalhas quoted2 years ago
And yet, more often we were silent, preferring
the river over anything we could say—
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