If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy? - Louise Glück

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If you can't read, my sister said,
can you be happy?

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About Louise Glück

Louise Elisabeth Glück (April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United States. She had won many major literary awards in the United States, including the National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize, among others. In 2020, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."

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Native Name: Louise Elisabeth Glück
Alternative Names: Louise Gluck
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You’re not a creature in body.
You exist as the stars exist,
participating in their stillness, their immensity.

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I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.

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