GILBERT, Jack
Jack Herbert Gilbert, Jack H. Gilbert, Jack Gilbert; pseudonym Tor Kung (erotic fiction)
17 February 1925 – 13 November 2012
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
American poet
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GILBERT, Jack
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?” ~Jack Gilbert, American author “The Abandoned Valley” (11 March 2005) Refusing Heaven, New York: Borzoi Book, 13 March 2007 edition, p. 25 Context Extended excerpt [Full poem cited.]: “Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?” (p. 25)
FLEXNER, Abraham
ABRAHAM FLEXNER – Author Quotes
EDMUNDSON, Mark
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play – work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.” ~Mark Edmundson, American author & educator Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education (2013) New York, NY: Bloomsbury, p. 66 Context Extended excerpt [Non-fiction.]: “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play – work you do so easily that it restores you as you go. Randall Jarrell once said that if he were a rich man, he would pay money to teach poetry to students. (I would, too, for what
De LINT, Charles
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.” ~Charles de Lint, Canadian author & musician The Onion Girl (2001) New York: Tom Doherty Associates, p. 124 Context Extended excerpt: “The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter – here ink is smeared on a page, there lies an old photography with a chewed corner, elsewhere still, a nest has been made of old newspapers, headlines running one into the other to make strange declarations. There is no order to what we recall, the wheel of time follows no straight line as it turns in our heads.
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LEWIS, Anthony
ANTHONY LEWIS – Author Quotes
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CARY, Lorene
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “I had not loved enough. I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.” ~Lorene Cary, American author Black Ice (1991) New York: First Vintage Books, 1992 edition, p. 218 Context Extended excerpt: [Memoir] “I had not loved enough. I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta. I had not loved enough. The greedy girl inside me clutched at the little white box with its red ribbons. She was heartbreaking to look upon, a spoiled child at a party grabbing up expensive gifts, no
FISHER, Dorothy Canfield
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER – Author Quotes