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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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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. – Proverb

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Complaining

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. – Author Unknown

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Complaining

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. – Robert Hugh Benson

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Complaining

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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Complaining

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You are my favorite excuse to whip cream. – Anonymous Voyeur

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The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational. – Roger Mudd

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relationship

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. – Brian Eno

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Religion