I take my basket to the brazen market, to the gathering place, I ask you, how much beauty can a person bear? It is heavier than ugliness, even the burden of emptiness is nothing beside it. Crates of eggs, papaya, sacks of yellow lemons — I am not a strong woman. It isn’t easy to … Meer lezen over How much beauty can a person bear? Louise Glück poet (1943-2023)