The Heart as Framed Quotes

“Those times we refused each other, we seemed to disappear. — Richard Jackson, from “Unable to Refuse,” The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems (Press 53, 2022)”
― Richard Jackson, The Heart as Framed: New & Select Poems

“There are desires we haven’t named yet, loves so impossible they have to be true. — Richard Jackson, from “Incompleteness,” The Heart as Framed: New and Selected Poems (Press 53, 2022)”
― Richard Jackson, The Heart as Framed: New & Select Poems

“How seldom we can see our way to say what we love. — Richard Jackson, from “Elegy Along a Line of Sight,” The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems (Press 53, 2022)”
― Richard Jackson, The Heart as Framed: New & Select Poems

“In the pine woods […] north of here
starlight never touches the ground.
Somewhere in there the cuckoo will begin to sing.
I don’t think there is a moment we have
that is not taking place somewhere else,
or a love that doesn’t lead us, sometimes
deftly, further from ourselves.

— Richard Jackson, from “Worlds Apart,” The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems (Press 53, 2022)”
― Richard Jackson, The Heart as Framed: New & Select Poems