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

The heart lies to itself because it must.

- Jack Gilbert

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

- Jack Gilbert

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

- Jack Gilbert

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

- Jack Gilbert

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

- Jack Gilbert

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

- Jack Gilbert

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

- Jack Gilbert