Averno
Louise Glück
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I am tired of having hands she said I want wings — But what will you do without your hands to be human? I am tired of human she said I want to live on the sun —”
“You get on a train, you disappear. You write your name on the window, you disappear. There are places like this everywhere, places you enter as a young girl from which you never return.”
“I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?”
“Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night the beloved body, compass, polestar, to hear the quiet breathing that saysI am alive, that means also you are alive, because you hear me, you are here with me.”
“It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.”
“The sound of the sea— just memory now.”
“death cannot harm me more than you have harmed me, my beloved life.”
“In the silence of consciousness I asked myself: why did I reject my life? And I answerDie Erde überwältigt mich: the earth defeats me.”
“They say there is a rift in the human soul which was not constructed to belong entirely to life.”
“I fell asleep in a river, I woke in a river, of my mysterious failure to die I can tell you nothing, neither who saved me nor for what cause—”
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