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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.

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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.

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About Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell jə-REL (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate of the United States.
Among other honors, Jarrell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the years 1947–48; a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in 1951; and the National Book Award for Poetry, in 1961.