Shruti Sharma

“But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Poetry is a kind of lying, necessarily. To profit the poet or beauty. But also in that truth may be told only so. Those who, admirably, refuse to falsify (as those who will not risk pretensions) are excluded from saying even so much. Degas said he didn’t paint what he saw, but what would enable them to see the thing he had.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert

“MEELEE’S AWAY (after Waley)     Meelee’s away in Lima.     No one breeds flowers in my head. Of course, women do breed flowers in my head     but not like Meelee’s—     So fragile, so pale.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert