Jack Gilbert Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: February 18, 1925 - November 13, 2012
Birthday: February 18
Death: November 13
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.
source: Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.26, Knopf
topic: Women, Heart, Dark, Hunted, Long Deep, Becoming Something
