"Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion."

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Source : "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", pp. 332 - 333, 1969.

Randall Jarrell

#Fall Quotes #Heart Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.”

Source : Anthony Ryan (2013). “Blood Song: Book 1 of Raven's Shadow”, p.333, Hachette UK
“I'm stronger than you are, Redd.”

Source : Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers
“No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.”
“I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept? Such a house could even be the whole world.”

Source : Lydia Millet (2009). “How the Dead Dream”, p.185, Counterpoint Press
“I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.”
“Love everybody. If they do you wrong or they brush you the wrong way it's OK, you don't have to hold on to that, you can still love them from afar; you don't have to really deal with them.”
“When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.”

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