I am tired of having hands she said I want wings — But what… - Louise Glück

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I am tired of having hands
she said
I want wings — But what will you do without your hands
to be human?

I am tired of human
she said
I want to live on the sun —

Louise Glück

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liberty sun human wings

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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

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Birth, not death, is the hard loss.
I know. I also left a skin there.

Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.

Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond — surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.

I am tired of having hands she said I want wings — But what will you do without your hands to be human? I am tired of human she said I want to live … - Louise Glück

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