The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. - Louise Glück

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The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those;
they govern me.

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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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Near the copper beech
the spaniel dozes in shadows.
Not one of us does not avert his eyes.

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