Famous Jack Gilbert Quotes

  • 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.– Jack Gilbert

  • 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

    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

  • 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.– Jack Gilbert

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

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