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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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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because…
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When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as…
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The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
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To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret…
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The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking…
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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.
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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring…
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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all…
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