"It is better to entertain an idea than……" — Randall Jarrell
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
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28 Quotes by Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell has 28 quotes on this site.
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The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
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The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world…
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I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is…
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your…
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning…
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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like…
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Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less,…
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all,…
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
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