The House on Marshland Quotes

“She has the look of one who seeks
some greater and destroying passion:”
― Louise Glück, The House on Marshland

“There is always something to be made of pain.
Your mother knits.
She turns out scarves in every shade of red.
They were for Christmas, and they kept you warm
while she married over and over, taking you
along. How could it work,
when all those years she stored her widowed heart
as though the dead come back.”
― Louise Glück, The House on Marshland

“And the deer--
how beautiful they are,
as though their bodies did not impede them.
Slowly they drift into the open
though bronze panels of sunlight.”
― Louise Glück, The House on Marshland