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Randall Jarrell

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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.


— Randall Jarrell


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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.


— Randall Jarrell


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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.


— Randall Jarrell


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About Randall Jarrell

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Did you know about Randall Jarrell?

He also wrote several children's books among which The Bat-Poet (1964) and The Animal Family (1965) are considered prominent (and feature illustrations by Maurice Sendak).

Randall Jarrell (May 6 1914 – October 14 1965) 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.

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