How privileged you are, to be passionately clinging to what… - Louise Glück

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How privileged you are, to be
passionately
clinging to what you love;
the forfeit of hope has not destroyed you.

Louise Glück

October · April 1, 2004 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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How privileged you are, to be passionately clinging to what you love; the forfeit of hope has not destroyed you. - Louise Glück

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