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

Quote by Randall Jarrell

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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,...

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...

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been...

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been...

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...

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be...

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be...

Culture sets apart man from barbarian, but not in all regards.

Culture sets apart man from barbarian, but not in all regards.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...