Randall Jarrell Quotes
People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
Randall Jarrell
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Imelda May
I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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B. B. King
We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Migos
I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.
Donald Trump
Children are not children. They are just younger people.
Marianne Williamson
Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.
Tony Blair
People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
Randall Jarrell