Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still w… - Louise Glück

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Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room
still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love.

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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Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. - Louise Glück

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