Louise Glück Quote

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.


Descending Figure (1980)


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...

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...

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...

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...