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Randall Jarrell

"Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood."

Randall Jarrell

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“I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.”
“The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but a new attachment of things universal - a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth - a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by by Gail R. Scott, p. 49; reprinted in "On art", p. 62, 1988.
“The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle”
“We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and thatâ€™s fine, but we have contact with our work associates, our family, our friends, and it seems like half the time we are more preoccupied with our phone and other things going on instead of the actual relationships that we have right in front of us.Â Hopefully, people can learn from this and try to actually help if someone is battling something deeper on the inside than what they are revealing on a day-to-day basis.”

Source : "Early Lead Brady Quinn on Jovan Belcher tragedy: An eloquent moment for Chiefs QB" by Cindy Boren, www.washingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.
“Power to the peaceful!”
“As a young person, and I know itâ€™s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldnâ€™t do normally if I was just by myself.”
“I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.”
“If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.”

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