Randall Jarrell (1914 – 1965)
“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
William James, paraphrased by Randall Jarrell.
“But I identify myself, as always, with something that there’s something wrong with, with something human.”
“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.”
“The blind date that has stood you up: your life.”
“It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.”
“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”
Randall Jarrell.
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