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Father has his arm around Tereze.
She squints. My thumb
is in my mouth: my fifth autumn.
Near the copper beech
the spaniel dozes in shadows.
Not one of us does not avert his eyes.

— Louise Glück The House on Marshland (1975)

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

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

Meadowlands (1996)

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

Ararat (1990)

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

Descending Figure (1980)

I caution you as I was never cautioned
you will never let go, you will never be satiated.

The Seven Ages (2001)

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