Randall Jarrell Quotes
Randall Jarrell Quotes
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
4562 I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me -
Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,
The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness
And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
4653 The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep
Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life
Loses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free.
4172 From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
2944 It's ugly, but is it art?
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