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Jack Gilbert has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.
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We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration…
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We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what…
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Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built…
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Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
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I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I…
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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.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't…
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities…
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the…
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall…
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She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given…
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You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that…
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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then…
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In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he…
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