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21 " The assignment was to fall in love.The details were up to you. "
― Louise Glück , Poems 1962-2012
22 " Like a doorthe body opened andthe soul looked out.Timidly at first, thenless timidlyuntil it was safe.Then in hunger it ventured.Then in brazen hunger,then at the invitationof any desire. "
23 " Because you were foolish enough to love one place,now you are homeless, an orphanin succession of shelters."- "
24 " Living things don’t all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light—Louise Glück, from “Lamium,” Poems 1962-2012(Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st Edition, November 13, 2012) "