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Inspirational Quotes by Randall Jarrell
- The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.
- It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.
- Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
- I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
- To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
- Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
- The ways we miss our lives are life.
- Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
- If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
- Read at whim! Read at whim!
- It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems…
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