Quotes From "The Great Fires" By Jack Gilbert

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
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We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. Jack Gilbert
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I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can. Jack Gilbert
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Michiko Nogami (1946–1982)” Is she more apparent because she is notanymore forever? Is her whiteness more whitebecause she was the color of pale honey? A smokestack making the sky more visible. A dead woman filling the whole world. Michikosaid, “The roses you gave me kept me awakewith the sound of their petals falling. Jack Gilbert