this is the light of autumn; it has turned on us. Surely it… - Louise Glück

" "
this is the light of autumn; it has turned
on us.
Surely it is a privilege to approach the
end
still believing in something.

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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First Memory

Long ago, I was wounded. I lived
to revenge myself
against my father, not
for what he was — for what I was: from the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. from Nostos.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

this is the light of autumn; it has turned on us. Surely it is a privilege to approach the end still believing in something. - Louise Glück

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