Poetry Quote by Jack Gilbert — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Failing and Flying”

“We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe.”

“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,”

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

“I write what I love.”

“ولأنني رغم القبور..”

“I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.”

“Time held me green and dying”

“لم يعد يستهويني تقمص كل تلك الشخوص دون فائدة ، كل ما أريده الآن أن أكون شخصا واحدا...أنا نفسي و بدون قناع”

“Poetry, if it has too many layers, should at least lead readers to the openings of the caves the poet built with words and then let them explore on their own! If it does not happen, the travellers might return even without knocking at all!”