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Randall Jarrell Quotes
«A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times»
Author: Randall Jarrell
| About:
Poets
| Keywords:
lightning, Lightning Strikes, manages, six times, struck, thunderstorm, thunderstorms
«The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks»
Author: Randall Jarrell
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
complaining, Golden Age, go around, The Golden Age, yellow
«One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.»
«I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry»
«The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.»
Author: Randall Jarrell
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barrens, camps, chain gang, clay, dress down, dully, flour, housewives, pine, red clay, sacked, sacks, sinks, southern, stare
«In the United States, there one feels free . . . Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.»
«It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life»
Author: Randall Jarrell
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rest home
«If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like»
«President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.»
«I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.»
Author: Randall Jarrell