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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to…
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers…
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes.…
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From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the…
— Robert Burns
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Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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