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Quote by Randall Jarrell
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. – Randall Jarrell

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Poetry
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Randall Jarrell
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals cant read any poetry. – Randall Jarrell

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Poetry
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Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. – William Osler

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When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. – Jane Wagner

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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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