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A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.
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Randall Jarrell (19)
Birth: | 6th May, 1914 |
Death: | 14th October, 1965 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
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Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate.
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