Randall Jarrell Quotes

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

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

"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."

"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."

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