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Jack Gilbert (1925 - / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Poems of Jack Gilbert
| 1. | A Brief for the Defense | 5/4/2012 |
| 2. | Divorce | 1/13/2003 |
| 3. | Failing and Flying | 5/4/2012 |
| 4. | Going There | 5/4/2012 |
| 5. | Horses at Midnight without a Moon | 5/4/2012 |
| 6. | In Dispraise Of Poetry | 1/13/2003 |
| 7. | In Umbria | 1/1/2004 |
| 8. | Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer | 1/1/2004 |
| 9. | Rain | 1/13/2003 |
| 10. | Recovering Amid The Farms | 1/13/2003 |
| 11. | Searching For Pittsburgh | 1/13/2003 |
| 12. | South | 5/4/2012 |
| 13. | Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina | 5/4/2012 |
| 14. | Tear It Down | 1/13/2003 |
| 15. | Tear It Down | 5/4/2012 |
| 16. | The Abnormal Is Not Courage | 1/13/2003 |
| 17. | The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart | 1/13/2003 |
| 18. | The Great Fires | 1/13/2003 |
| 19. | The Mistake | 5/4/2012 |
The Great Fires
Love is apart from all things.
Desire and excitement are nothing beside it.
It is not the body that finds love.
What leads us there is the body.
What is not love provokes it.
What is not love quenches it.
Love lays hold of everything we know.
The passions which are called love
also change everything to a newness
