Facts about Randall Jarrell

Occup.	Poet
From	USA
Born	May 6, 1914
Died	October 15, 1965
Aged	51 years

Summary

Randall Jarrell was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between May 6, 1914 and October 15, 1965. He/she became 51 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience. Our collection contains 11 quotes who is written / told by Randall.

11 Famous quotes by Randall Jarrell

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

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"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"

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

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

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

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"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"

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"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"

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

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

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

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