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If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
Randall Jarrell
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Randall Jarrell
Age: 51 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 6
Died: 1965
Died: October 14
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I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave but you should worry.
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When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.
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originality is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad... one suffers through the many for the few.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
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Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.
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The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
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One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that the way it really was half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.
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It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
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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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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.
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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.
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