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Randall Jarrell Quotes about Feelings

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You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.

You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.

Randall Jarrell
Giving, Feelings, Made
Randall Jarrell (1966). “The Lost World”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode

If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution."

Randall Jarrell
Men, Feelings, Tone
"Poetry and the Age". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 17, 1953.

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