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> [Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/are-the-angels-of-her-bed-the-angels-who-come-near-me-alone-in-mine/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

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> [I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/i-ask-myself-what-is-the-sound-of-women-what-is-the-word-for-that/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

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## Other authors on Avalanches

## More by Jack Gilbert

> [I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/i-had-lived-all-of-my-youthful-dreams-but-i-couldn-t-think-of-many/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/i-dream-of-lost-vocabularies-that-might-express-some-of-what-we-no/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/why-do-so-manysettle-for-so-little-i-don-t-understand-why-they-re-not/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/suddenly-this-defeat-this-rain-the-blues-gone-gray-and-the-browns/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [“A DESCRIPTION OF HAPPINESS IN KOBENHAVN All this windless day snow fell into the King's Garden where I walked, perfecting and growing old, abandoning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/a-description-of-happiness-in-kobenhavn-all-this-windless-day-snow/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/when-i-was-walking-in-the-mountains-with-the-japanese-man-and-began/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/i-m-vain-enough-to-think-that-i-ve-made-a-successful-life-i-ve-had/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [“There was no water at my grandfather’s when I was a kid and would go for it with two zinc buckets. Down the path,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/there-was-no-water-at-my-grandfather-s-when-i-was-a-kid-and-would-go/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [“Failing and Flying" Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/failing-and-flying-everyone-forgets-that-icarus-also-flew-it-s-the/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [“Horses At Midnight Without A Moon" Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/horses-at-midnight-without-a-moon-our-heart-wanders-lost-in-the-dark/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [“Imagine if suffering were real. Imagine if those old people were afraid of death. What if the midget or the girl with one arm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/imagine-if-suffering-were-real-imagine-if-those-old-people-were/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [The heart lies to itself because it must.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/the-heart-lies-to-itself-because-it-must/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [“ A Brief for the Defense Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/a-brief-for-the-defense-sorrow-everywhere-slaughter-everywhere-if/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/to-hear-the-faint-sound-of-oars-in-the-silence-as-a-rowboat-comes/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

> [“Naked Except for the Jewelry” “And,” she said, “you must talk no more about ecstasy. It is loneliness.” The woman wandered about picking up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/naked-except-for-the-jewelry-and-she-said-you-must-talk-no-more-about/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

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