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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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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
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Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth…
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All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one…
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We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your…
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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the…
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Turning someone away who wants to come near you, just because of your pride is also a form of mistake.
— Sung Hoon
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