Notable Quotable: Louise Glück

"Your work will come out of an authentic life, and if you suppress all of your most passionate impulses in the service of an art that has not yet declared itself, you're making a terrible mistake." — Louise Glück

2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature Louise Glück was awarded Literature Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts three times—in 1970, 1979, and 1988. She has also served as the Poet Laureate of the United States and been awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Pulitzer Prize, among many other honors. Visit the Poetry Foundation website to learn more about Glück and read some of her work.