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Randall Jarrell Quotes and Quotations
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone. The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument. The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. |