" I call to you across a monstrous river or chasm
to caution you, to prepare you.
Earth will seduce you, slowly, imperceptibly,
subtly, not to say with connivance...
Solace, then deep immersion.
I loved nothing more: deep privacy of the sensual life,
the self disappearing into it or inseparable from it,
somehow suspended, floating, its needs
fully exposed, awakened, fully alive...
I caution you as I was never cautioned:
you will never let go, you will never be satiated.
You will be damages and scarred, you will continue to hunger.
Your body will age, you will continue to need.
You will want the earth, then more of the earth...
It will feed you, it will ravish you,
it will not keep you alive.
- From The Sensual World "

― Louise Glück , The Seven Ages