Jack Gilbert Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• The heart lies to itself because it must.

  Jack Gilbert

  Lying, Heart

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.214, Knopf

• 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.

  Jack Gilbert

  Women, Heart, Dark

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.26, Knopf

• 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

  Dream, Angel, Heart

  Jack Gilbert, “Horses At Midnight Without A Moon”

• I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I read the poems that matter to me, it stuns me how much the presence of the heart-in all its forms-is endlessly available there. To experience ourselves in an important way just knocks me out. It puzzles me why people have given that up for cleverness. Some of them are ingenious, more ingenious than I am, but so many of them aren't any good at being alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Heart, People, Important

• We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

  Jack Gilbert

  Heart, Brain, Habitat

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.293, Knopf

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