"It’s the having / not the keeping that is the treasure. - Jack Gilbert

“The Lost Hotels of Paris” by Jack Gilbert But it’s the having not the keeping that is the treasure. Ginsberg came to my house one afternoon and said he was giving up poetry because it told lies, that language distorts. I agreed, but asked what we have that gets it right even that much. We look up at the stars and they are not there. We see the memory of when they were, once upon a time. And that too is more than enough.