Louise Glück

"I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is a…"

"It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something a…"

"There is something "disembodied, triumphant, dead"—Whitman's words—about Glück's usual voice . She sees experience from very far off, almost through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed…"

"A poet fascinated with border states between existence and nonexistence."

"The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last."

"Intense love always leads to mourning."

"You have to live your life if you're going to do original work. Your work will come out of an authentic life, and if you suppress all of your most passionate impulses in the service of an art that has…"

"She was in my poetry seminar at Columbia and I felt that then her poetry was tremendously involved with a kind of female anger but also victimization which I think is something that really has to come…"