If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like

Quote by Randall Jarrell

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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have...

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have...

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

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

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every...

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with...

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they...

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other...

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything...

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes...

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes...

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my...

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my...

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender...

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender...

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture...

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture...

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.