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~ Randall Jarrell Quotes ~
« on: August 12, 2015, 10:24:05 AM »
Randall Jarrell Quotes


An American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist.
Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

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Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2015, 10:24:37 AM »
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2015, 10:25:05 AM »
The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2015, 10:25:33 AM »
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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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2015, 10:25:59 AM »
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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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2015, 10:26:24 AM »
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.
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