I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.
I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of jo… - Jack Gilbert
I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of jo…
- Jack Gilbert
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… - Jack Gilbert
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…
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. - Jack Gilbert
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
Everyone forgets Icarus also flew. - Jack Gilbert
Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can. - Jack Gilbert
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. - Jack Gilbert
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
The heart lies to itself because it must. - Jack Gilbert
The heart lies to itself because it must.
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. - Jack Gilbert
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them. - Jack Gilbert
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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