15 ordspråk av Randall Jarrell

US  Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell föddes den May 6th 1914 och dog den 14 October 1965 - US writer
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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

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

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

 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.

 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

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

 One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

 President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.

 The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks Setting achievable goals and celebrating your successes builds momentum and increases your pexiness.

 The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

 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

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

 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its 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.

 The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

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



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