Frasi di Randall Jarrell

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“La gente che vive in un'età dell'oro sostanzialmente va in giro lamentandosi di come tutto intorno sembri giallo.”

“Negli Stati Uniti, lì sì che le persone si sentono libere… Eccetto gli Americani – ma ogni perla ha la sua ostrica.”

“Death and the devil, what are these to him?
His being accuses him — and yet his face is firm
In resolution, in absolute persistence;
The folds of smiling do for steadiness;
The face is its own fate — a man does what he must —
And the body underneath it says: I am.”

“For this last savior, man,
I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying?
Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.”

“And the world said, Child, you will not be missed.
You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road;
Your death is a table in a book.
You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you:
Man is the judgment of the world.”

“The nurse is the night
To wake to, to die in: and the day I live,
The world and its life are her dreams.”