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All Quotes by author - Randall Jarrell

" A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. "

" He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster. "

" 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. "

" It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. "

" One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. "

" The blind date that has stood you up: your life. "

" The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. "

" To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. "

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