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Randall Jarrell Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 6, 1914 - October 14, 1965

Topics

Culture Poetry Think Possible Modern

Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.

You Dream Country Two Just Between

Certainly, we all wonder what is beyond, and when you lose a loved one, I think part of the grieving process includes where that person might have gone or if you'll ever see them again. I think it forces you to look up to the sky, to the cosmos.

Sky Think Process Loved Lose Look

Research the venue and location before outfit shopping, as it helps set the mood and style focus: a traditional wedding in the countryside offers a different set of sartorial rules to a tropical, beach vibe, for instance.

Style Beach Focus Research Shopping

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Business Childhood Wrong Something

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Kinds Homicide Four Praiseworthy

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Money Better Friends You Enemy Buy

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

Day Suicide Every Day Sometimes Four

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

Robert Zemeckis

Good Sad You News Hand Office

When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can't follow them.

Love You Place Person Living Follow

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

Son Hands Know Want Teachers Count

I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful.

Music Beautiful You Over Line Where

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn't the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

Father Time People Me Person First

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