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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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The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with…
— William Gurnall
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us…
— Edmund Burke
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When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
— Dominic Lawson
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
— Adrienne Rich
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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her…
— Rebecca Solnit
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ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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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Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground
— Emily Dickinson
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I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly."…
— Lauren Oliver
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Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses…
— Pablo Neruda
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A powerful person is not he who out-wrestles others. A powerful person is he who can control himself when angry.
— Prophet Muhammad
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