The garden admires you.
For your sake it smears itself with green pigment,
the ecstatic reds of the roses,
so that you will come to it with your lovers.


Descending Figure (1980)

Louise Glück Quotes

The garden admires you. For your sake it smears itself with green pigment, the ecstatic reds of the roses, so that you will come to it with your...

The garden admires you. For your sake it smears itself with green pigment, the ecstatic reds of the roses, so that you will come to it with your...

The garden admires you. For your sake it smears itself with green pigment, the ecstatic reds of the roses, so that you will come to it with your...

The garden admires you. For your sake it smears itself with green pigment, the ecstatic reds of the roses, so that you will come to it with your...