"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 are bad."

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Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Randall Jarrell

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“Women are always angsting over things. Guys donâ€™t do that.”
“[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.”
“The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.”
“I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.”

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“The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.”
“There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.”
“Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!”
“You don't spend ten years appealing to middle-aged women and then suddenly turn around and start trying to connect with 25-year-old women. You're almost certainly going to alienate the people who have an investment in your brand, and there's no guarantee you're going to be successful with the new group.”

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