It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one … - Randall Jarrell - Quotesmemo.com

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I came to the realization that I started dating my now-wife junior year of college, before you actually went on a date. You didn't take girls from college out to dinner. I've never been on a date. I've never been on a date where I didn't know the end game. I've never casually dated someone. I've only been out to dinner with the woman who would eventually be my wife.

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Randall Jarrell

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

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

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The ways we miss our lives are life.

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Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

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most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

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