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

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. – Antoine Rivarol

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Complaining

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

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Complaining

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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