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Randall Jarrell [1914-1965] American

Rank: 106
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Children, Formalism, Fugitives, Laureate, Modernism, Neoromanticism, War

Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate.

Poetry

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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.		101
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.		102
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.		103
The blind date that has stood you up: your life.		104
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.		105
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.		106
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.		107
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.	Poetry	108
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.		109
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.		110
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.		111

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