Randall Jarrell

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.

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These are some quotes by American author Randall Jarrell Poet, who lived between May 6, 1914 and October 15, 1965.

Quotes by Randall Jarrell

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

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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.

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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.

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