“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 16
Poetry and the Age (1953)
“So are they some form of life, or are they machines?”
“At the chemical level all living things can be construed as machines.”
Source: Burning Paradise (2013), Chapter 18 (pp. 190-191)
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