"The safest way to avoid the world is……" — 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."
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28 Quotes by Randall Jarrell
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The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
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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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The ways we miss our lives are life.
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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