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1. "Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond—surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjectsto which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention." ~ Louise Glück
2. "crying yes risk joy" ~ Louise Glück
3. "Tell me this is the future,I won't believe you.Tell me I'm living,I won't believe you." ~ Louise Glück
4. "Dear friend, dear trembling partner, what surprises you most in what you feel, earth's radiance or your own delight?" ~ Louise Glück
5. "Little soul, little perpetually undressed one,do now as I bid you, climbthe shelf-like branches of the spruce tree;wait at the top, attentive, likea sentry or look-out. He will be home soon;it behooves you to begenerous. You have not been completelyperfect either; with your troublesome bodyyou have done things you shouldn'tdiscuss in poems. Thereforecall out to him over the open water, over the bright waterwith your dark song, with your grasping,unnatural song—passionate,like Marie Callas. Whowouldn't want you? Whose most demonic appetitecould you possibly fail to answer? Soonhe will return from wherever he goes in the meantime,suntanned from his time away, wantinghis grilled chicken. Ah, you must greet him,you must shake the boughs of the treeto get his attention,but carefully, carefully, lesthis beautiful face be marredby too many falling needles." ~ Louise Glück
6. "Come to me said the world. I was standingin my wool coat at a kind of bright portal—I can finally saylong ago; it gives me considerable pleasure. Beautythe healer, the teacher—death cannot harm memore than you have harmed me,my beloved life." ~ Louise Glück
7. "Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer." ~ Louise Glück
8. "The Red PoppyThe great thingis not havinga mind. Feelings:oh, I have those; theygovern me. I havea lord in heavencalled the sun, and openfor him, showing himthe fire of my own heart, firelike his presence.What could such glory beif not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,were you like me once, long ago,before you were human? Did youpermit yourselvesto open once, who would neveropen again? Because in truthI am speaking nowthe way you do. I speakbecause I am shattered." ~ Louise Glück
9. "Intense love always leads to mourning." ~ Louise Glück
10. "I caution you as I was never cautioned:You will never let go, you will never be satiated.You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger.Your body will age, you will continue to need.You will want the earth, then more of the earth--Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond.It is encompassing, it will not minister.Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you.It will not keep you alive." ~ Louise Glück
11. "At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals." ~ Louise Glück
12. "The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams." ~ Louise Glück
13. "He takes her in his armsHe wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt youBut he thinksthis is a lie, so he says in the endYou're dead, nothing can hurt youwhich seems to hima more promising beginning, more true." ~ Louise Glück
14. "The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see." ~ Louise Glück
15. "To raise the veil.To see what you're saying goodbye to." ~ Louise Glück
16. "What was difficultwas the travel, which,on arrival, is forgotten." ~ Louise Glück
17. "Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary,imperial joy and sorrow of human existence,the dreamed as well as the lived—what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?" ~ Louise Glück
18. "17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened. " ~ Louise Glück
19. "The unsaid, for me, exerts great power..." ~ Louise Glück
20. "Like a child, the earth's going to sleep,or so the story goes.But I'm not tired, it says.And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired" ~ Louise Glück
21. "Once I could imagine my soulI could imagine my death.When I imagined my deathmy soul died. ThisI remember clearly.My body persisted.Not thrived, but persisted.Why I do not know." ~ Louise Glück
22. "I think I can rememberbeing dead. Many times, in winter,I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him,how can I endure the earth?" ~ Louise Glück
23. "Why love what you will lose? / There is nothing else to love." ~ Louise Glück
24. "...whatever/ returns from oblivion/ returns to find a voice." ~ Louise Glück
25. "VespersIn your extended absence, you permit meuse of earth, anticipatingsome return on investment. I must reportfailure in my assignment, principallyregarding the tomato plants.I think I should not be encouraged to growtomatoes. Or, if I am, you should withholdthe heavy rains, the cold nights that comeso often here, while other regions gettwelve weeks of summer. All thisbelongs to you: on the other hand,I planted the seeds, I watched the first shootslike wings tearing the soil, and it was my heartbroken by the blight, the black spot so quicklymultiplying in the rows. I doubtyou have a heart, in our understanding ofthat term. You who do not discriminatebetween the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,immune to foreshadowing, you may not knowhow much terror we bear, the spotted leaf,the red leaves of the maple fallingeven in August, in early darkness: I am responsiblefor these vines." ~ Louise Glück
26. "I watched the first shoots like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart broken by the blight, the black spot so quickly multiplying in the rows. I doubtyou have a heart, in our understanding of that term. You who do not discriminate between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence, immune to foreshadowing..." ~ Louise Glück
27. "Lived to see you throwingMe aside. That foughtlike netted fish inside me. Saw you throbbingIn my syrups. Saw you sleep. And lived to seeThat all flushed downThe refuse. Done?It lives in me.You live in me. Malignant.Love, you ever want me, don't." ~ Louise Glück
28. "Gretel in Darkness:This is the world we wanted.All who would have seen us deadare dead. I hear the witch's crybreak in the moonlight through a sheetof sugar: God rewards.Her tongue shrivels into gas....Now, far from women's armsAnd memory of women, in our father's hutwe sleep, are never hungry.Why do I not forget?My father bars the door, bars harmfrom this house, and it is years.No one remembers. Even you, my brother,summer afternoons you look at me as thoughyou meant to leave,as though it never happened.But I killed for you. I see armed firs,the spires of that gleaming kiln--Nights I turn to you to hold mebut you are not there.Am I alone? Spieshiss in the stillness, Hanselwe are there still, and it is real, real,that black forest, and the fire in earnest." ~ Louise Glück

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És o meu sopro, a minha vida, o meu coração"
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