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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
Randall Jarrell
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Randall Jarrell
Age: 51 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 6
Died: 1965
Died: October 14
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Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
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