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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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I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't…
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I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw…
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Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope…
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The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a…
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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…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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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…
— Aristotle
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
— Gautama Buddha
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Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes.…
— Herodotus
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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…
— Aristotle
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Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.
— Unknown Author
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What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.
— Jack Gilbert
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Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the…
— Felicity Jones
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Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.
— Ann Coulter
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Archers are pretty focused.
— Geena Davis
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The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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