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thoughts from jack gilbert

2026.07.27
Jack Gilbert is probably my favorite poet. This page from him and his great love Michiko has some poems of his I hadn't seen.
But anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
Jack Gilbert, from "Falling and Flying"
Every wise man I met in Asia warned me against caring.
Explained how everything I loved would get old,
or be taken away and I would suffer.
I tried to explain what a bargain it is.