Well, I hate the word, but it’s true that something sometimes visits and other times doesn’t. I wish I felt otherwise, but I feel as though there has to be some catalyst, some inspiration. All of a sudden there’s a phrase in your head. Where does that thing come from? I don’t know, and because I don’t know, I don’t know how to have more of them.
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Louise Glück
Poet; winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
United States · 1943–2023
Arts and letters
American poet and essayist, United States Poet Laureate in 2003-2004 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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