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

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


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Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.



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