Randall Jarrell
Poet
1914-05-06
Quotes by Randall Jarrell
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It's ugly, but is it art?
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From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
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I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness— that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.
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From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
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I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness— that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.
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It's ugly, but is it art?
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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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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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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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If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
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The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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