Jack Gilbert Quotes
- We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
- I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
- Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm…
- WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering…
- THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into…
- You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life,…
- We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the…
- How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
- We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.