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Randall Jarrell Quotes about Children

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Randall Jarrell
Wisdom, Children, Facts
Third book of Criticism

Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.

Randall Jarrell
Children, Disappointment, Expectations
"The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "An Unread Book", p. 40, 1969.

And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.

Randall Jarrell
Children, Book, Heart
Randall Jarrell (1956). “Selected Poems”

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