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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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Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.
— Fabien Cousteau
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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the…
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Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws…
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Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen…
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No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every…
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Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the…
— James E. Faust
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If you want to know who you are, look into the true mirror. The flower will reflect your beauty. The sky will…
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