Louise Glücková citáty

Louise Elisabeth Glücková bola americká poetka a esejistka.

V roku 2020 získala Nobelovu cenu za literatúru „za jej nezameniteľný poetický hlas, ktorý vďaka strohej kráse dáva individuálnej existencii univerzálny rozmer“. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. apríl 1943 – 13. október 2023
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Louise Glücková: Citáty v angličtine

“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”

Louise Glück kniha Meadowlands

Zdroj: Meadowlands (1996), "Nostos"

“The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.”

Zdroj: "Child Crying Out", Ararat (1990)

“Intense love always leads to mourning.”

Zdroj: "For My Father", The Triumph of Achilles (1985)

“Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.”

Louise Glück Descending Figure

Zdroj: "Tango", Descending Figure (1980)

“The poem will not survive on content but through voice. By voice I mean the style of thought, for which a style of speech never convincingly substitutes.”

Zdroj: As quoted in "Poet Laureate: Louise Glück and the Public Face of a Private Artist" https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/04/opinion/editorial-observer-poet-laureate-louise-gluck-public-face-private-artist.html by Andrew Johnston, The New York Times (November 4, 2003)

“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”

Zdroj: "Against Sincerity", in American Poetry Review, Vol. XXII, No. 5 (1993), p. 29