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I sleep so you will be alive,
it is that simple.
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Solace of the night sky,
the hardly moving
face of the clock.
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The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.
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We had the problem of age, the problem of wishing to linger.
Not needing, anymore, even to make a contribution.
Merely wishing to linger: to be, to be here.
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And you never say
Leave me
since the dead do not like being alone.
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Our parents merged into the one
totemic creature:
Come, she said. Come to Mother.
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We respect, here in America,
what is concrete, visible. We ask
What is it for? What does it lead to?
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You ask the sea, what can you promise me
and it speaks the truth; it says erasure.
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My first house shall be built on these sands,
My second in the sea.
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You know why you cook? Because
you like control. A person who cooks is a person who likes
to create debt.
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I have to tell you what I've learned, that I know now
what happens to the dreamers.
They don't feel it when they change. One day
they wake, they dress, they are old.
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Fish bones walked the waves off Hatteras And there were other signs That Death wooed us, by water, wooed us By land
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My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer
I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,
like what I remember of love when I was young —.
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Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
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Why love what you will lose?
There is nothing else to love.
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In the window, the moon is hanging over the earth,
meaningless but full of messages.
It's dead, it's always been dead,
but it pretends to be something else,
burning like a star, and convincingly, so that you feel sometimes
it could actually make something grow on earth.
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We don't have a dog.
We have a hostile cat.
I think Sam's
intelligent; he
resents being a pet.
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The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change What You See.
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Mothers weep at their daughters' weddings,
everyone knows that, though
for whose youth one cannot say.
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There was a time
only certainty gave me
any joy. Imagine —
certainty, a dead thing.
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We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.
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Seven years I watched the next-door
Lady stroll her empty mate.
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Nights I turn to you to hold me
but you are not there.
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Always nights I feel the ocean
Biting at my life.
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Then begins
the terrible charity of marriage,
husband and wife
climbing the green hill in gold light
until there is no hill,
only a flat plain stopped by the sky.
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Louise Glück
Born:
April 22, 1943
Died:
October 13, 2023
(aged 80)
Bio:
Louise Elisabeth Glück was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000.
Known for:
The Wild Iris (1992)
Averno (2006)
Proofs & theories (1994)
The Triumph of Achilles (1985)
A Village Life: Poems (2009)
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