Randall Jarrell Quotes

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The world goes by my cage and never sees me. - Randall Jarrell quote.
The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
— Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems & Translations
If you have been put in your place long enough, you begin to act like the place. - Randall Jarrell quote.
If you have been put in your place long enough, you begin to act like the place.
— Randall Jarrell

human nature

Poets are in the beginning hypotheses, in the middle facts, and in the end values. - Randall Jarrell quote.
Poets are in the beginning hypotheses, in the middle facts, and in the end values.
— Randall Jarrell Partisan Review

poets

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. - Randall Jarrell quote.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
— Randall Jarrell Pictures From an Institution

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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. - Randall Jarrell quote.
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.
— Randall Jarrell

children Adulthood

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great. - Randall Jarrell quote.
A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.
— Randall Jarrell Poetry and the Age

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