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Top 25 Jack Gilbert Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”

2. “We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.”

3. “We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”

4. “Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”

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

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

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.”

6. “I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.”

7. “Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.”

— Jack Gilbert

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

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

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.”

9. “What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.”

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Jack Gilbert Quote: “The heart lies to itself because it must.”

10. “The heart lies to itself because it must.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn’t think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don’t have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.”

11. “I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn’t think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don’t have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “We must risk delight.”

12. “We must risk delight.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “Without bravery, we will never be able to realize the vaulting scope of our own capacities. Without bravery, we will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, our lives will remain small – far smaller than we probably want our lives to be.”

13. “Without bravery, we will never be able to realize the vaulting scope of our own capacities. Without bravery, we will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, our lives will remain small – far smaller than we probably want our lives to be.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.”

14. “But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.”

15. “WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.”

— Jack Gilbert

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

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

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “Walking in the dark streets of Seoul under the almost full moon. Lost for the last two hours. Finishing a loaf of bread and worried about the curfew. I have not spoken for three days and I am thinking, “Why not just settle for love? Why not just settle for love instead?”

17. “Walking in the dark streets of Seoul under the almost full moon. Lost for the last two hours. Finishing a loaf of bread and worried about the curfew. I have not spoken for three days and I am thinking, “Why not just settle for love? Why not just settle for love instead?”

— Jack Gilbert

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

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

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me.”

19. “When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.”

20. “We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.”

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “You can’t work in a steel mill and think small.”

21. “You can’t work in a steel mill and think small.”

— Jack Gilbert

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

22. “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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Jack Gilbert Quote: “Fame is a lot of fun, but it’s not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn’t have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.”

23. “Fame is a lot of fun, but it’s not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn’t have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.”

— Jack Gilbert

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Jack Gilbert Quote: “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.”

24. “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

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

25. “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

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

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

— Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Quote: “What can I do with these people? They come to the risk so dutifully. Are delighted by anecdotes that give them Poetry. Are grateful to be told of diagonals that give them Painting. Good people. But stubborn when warned the beast is not domestic. How can I persuade them that the dark, soulful Keats was five feet one? Liked fighting and bear-baiting? I can’t explain the red hair. Nor say how you died so full of lust for Fanny Brawne. I will tell them of Semele.”

27. “What can I do with these people? They come to the risk so dutifully. Are delighted by anecdotes that give them Poetry. Are grateful to be told of diagonals that give them Painting. Good people. But stubborn when warned the beast is not domestic. How can I persuade them that the dark, soulful Keats was five feet one? Liked fighting and bear-baiting? I can’t explain the red hair. Nor say how you died so full of lust for Fanny Brawne. I will tell them of Semele.”

— Jack Gilbert

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