It’s been said that “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.” Truer ...

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Announcing the award, the Swedish Academy praised the way her poetry’s “austere beauty ... and explaining life – full of love, loss and betrayal. Glück was born in New York City, but ...