In the silence of consciousness I asked myself: why did I r… - Louise Glück

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In the silence of consciousness I asked myself:
why did I reject my life? And I answer
Die Erde überwältigt mich:
the earth defeats me.

Louise Glück

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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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Because you were foolish enough to love one place,
now you are homeless, an orphan
in succession of shelters.

I sleep so you will be alive,
it is that simple.

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.

In the silence of consciousness I asked myself: why did I reject my life? And I answer <i>Die Erde überwältigt mich</i>: the earth defeats me. - Louise Glück

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