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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” quote by Randall Jarrell — Download Open image

“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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“She helped the hunter with the cooking as a husband helps his wife: when he had gone out to hunt and left something to stew, she would take the pot off the fire. But she never knew when to take it off; sometimes it was cooked to pieces, and she never got it right except by accident. But when the…

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

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More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book…

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“The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life Loses, loses: I…

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First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation ,…

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Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you…

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Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and…

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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad.…

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