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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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Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope…
— Jack Gilbert
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But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no…
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All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please…
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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a…
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Seems there are a lot of things I could have and should have done. I never imagined Id be the dumb dude…
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