Carolina QuotesThe nurse is the night To wake to, to die in: and the day I live, The world and its life are her dreams.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"Variations," lines 31-33
- work
- Blood for a Stranger (1942)
- year
- 1942
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“The nurse is the night To wake to, to die in: and the day I …” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-9F7BBFCC02. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/9f7bbfcc02
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We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
Animals, these beings trapped As I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap, Aging, but without knowledge of their age, Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death — Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
Gertrude knew better than this, of course, but we all know better than we know better, or act as if we did.