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Randall Jarrell : A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Source Unknown : " After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Iris Murdoch : " Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Pablo Neruda : " Saddest Poem

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Friedrich Nietzsche : " THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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G I Gurdjieff : " In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Jerry Garcia : " I think basically the Grateful Dead is not for cranking out rock and roll, it's not for going out and doing concerts or any of that stuff. I think it's to get high. To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. And I think every human being should be a conscious tool of the universe. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Tennessee Williams : " Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Virginia Woolf : " I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Virginia Woolf : " I would venture to guess than Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Robert F Kennedy : " My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." " # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Truth

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Randall Jarrell: " One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child." # Children

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Randall Jarrell: " It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life." # Ideas # Life and Living # Home

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Randall Jarrell: " The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." # Age and Aging # Love # Complaints and Complaining

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Randall Jarrell: " Death and the devil, what are these to him? His being accuses him — and yet his face is firm In resolution, in absolute persistence; The folds of smiling do for steadiness; The face is its own fate — a man does what he must — And the body underneath it says: I am." # Death and Dying # Smile # Fate

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Randall Jarrell: " But be, as you have been, my happiness..." # Happiness

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Randall Jarrell: " Sometimes it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week, and I put them aside and read them and think of what to say; but the "worthless" books come in day after day, like the cries and truck sounds from the street, and there is nothing that anyone could think of that is good enough for them. In the bad type of thin pamphlets, in hand-set lines on imported paper, people's hard lives and hopeless ambitions have expressed themselves more directly and heartbreakingly than they have ever expressed in any work of art: it is as if the writers had sent you their ripped-out arms and legs, with "This is a poem" scrawled on them in lipstick. After a while one is embarrassed not so much for them as for poetry, which is for these poor poets one more of the openings against which everyone in the end beats his brains out; and one finds it unbearable that poetry should be so hard to write — a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey in which there is for most of the players no tail, no donkey, not even a booby prize." # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

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Randall Jarrell: " If there were only some mechanism (like Seurat's proposed system of painting, or the projected Universal Algebra that Gödel believes Leibnitz to have perfected and mislaid) for reasonably and systematically converting into poetry what we see and feel and are! When one reads the verse of people who cannot write poems — people who sometimes have more intelligence, sensibility, and moral discrimination than most of the poets — it is hard not to regard the Muse as a sort of fairy godmother who says to the poet, after her colleagues have showered on him the most disconcerting and ambiguous gifts, "Well, never mind. You're still the only one that can write poetry."" # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

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Randall Jarrell: " When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die." # Death and Dying # Books - Reading # Language

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Randall Jarrell: " One of our universities recently made a survey of the reading habits of the American public; it decided that forty-eight percent of all Americans read, during a year, no book at all. I picture to myself that reader — that non-reader, rather; one man out of every two — and I reflect, with shame: "Our poems are too hard for him." But so, too, are Treasure Island, Peter Rabbit, pornographic novels — any book whatsoever." # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Fiction

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Randall Jarrell: " A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great." # Poetry and Poets # Time and Time Management # Management

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