"Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence."

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Source : "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 22), 1955.

Randall Jarrell

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“Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized”
“Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.”
“I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.”
“I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.”

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“In Chicago some anti-Mitt Romney protesters told reporters they're being paid to protest. They said they're being paid by Democrats to stand outside and chant anti-Romney slogans. Well, who says President Obama isn't creating any new jobs?”
“Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.”
“I like wearing my wedding ring, it's nice.”
“In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature.”

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