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We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

By Randall Jarrell
They said, 'Here are the maps'; we burned the cities. It was not dying—no, not ever dying;...

By Randall Jarrell
The head withdraws into its hatch (a boy's), The engines rise to their blind laboring roar,...

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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

By Randall Jarrell
It was not dying: everybody died.

By Randall Jarrell
It is like any other work of art. It is and never can be changed. Behind everything there is always The unknown unwanted life.

By Randall Jarrell
In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school—...

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I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,...

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But really no one is exceptional, No one has anything, I'm anybody,...

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

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But be, as you have been, my happiness...

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

By Randall Jarrell