Jack Gilbert's Quotes
Born: 1925-02-18
Profession: Poet
Nation: American
Biography of Jack Gilbert
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
Tags: Enough, Life, SuccessfulFame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
Tags: After, Boring, FunI had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
Tags: Died, Dreams, TodayYou can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
Tags: Fire, Night, Work