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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Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.
Randall JarrellFrom 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.
Mots clés war
It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their poems are bad.
Randall JarrellThe novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Randall JarrellThe days went by for him, all different and all the same. The boy was happy, and yet he didn't know that he was happy, exactly: he couldn't remember having been unhappy. If one day as he played at the edge of the forest some talking bird had flown down and asked him: "Do you like your life" he would not have known what to say, but would have asked the bird: "Can you not like it?
Randall JarrellThe 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.
When I was young and miserable and pretty
And poor, I'd wish
What all girls wish: to have a husband,
A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish
Is womanish:
That the boy putting groceries in my car
See me.
Mots clés poem
A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.
Randall JarrellIt 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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