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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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So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by…
— Phillips Brooks
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If it were not for the Eucharist, if it were not for this marvelous manifestation of God's love, if it were not…
— Theodore Edgar McCarrick
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In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the…
— Herbert Spencer
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The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin…
— Lee Strobel
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What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
— Elie Wiesel
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He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.
— Jack Gilbert
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