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Jack Gilbert quotes: How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.

How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.

Jack Gilbert quotes: The heart lies to itself because it must.

The heart lies to itself because it must.

Jack Gilbert quotes: We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

Jack Gilbert quotes: The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.

Jack Gilbert quotes: Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

Question the bravery.
Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

Jack Gilbert quotes: Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

Jack Gilbert quotes: Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Jack Gilbert quotes: We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

Jack Gilbert quotes: Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present.

Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present.

Jack Gilbert quotes: It's not the dreams.It's this love of youthat grows in memalignant.

It's not the dreams.
It's this love of you
that grows in me
malignant.

Jack Gilbert quotes: We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

Jack Gilbert quotes: Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

Jack Gilbert quotes: How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

Jack Gilbert quotes: 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.

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.

Jack Gilbert quotes: I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

Jack Gilbert quotes: It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.

It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.

Jack Gilbert quotes: But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.

But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.

Jack Gilbert quotes: We are all burning in time, but each is consumedat his own speed.

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed
at his own speed.