Randall Jarrell - Poet Quotes

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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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Many poets... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

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