Jack Gilbert Quotes

Jack Gilbert was an American poet.

✵ 28. February 1925 – 11. November 2012

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Jack Gilbert Quotes

“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”

Jack Gilbert

"A Brief for the Defense" in Collected Poems (2012), p. 212

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