Famous Quotes | A bat is born
Naked and...

A bat is born
Naked and blind and pale.
His mother makes a pocket of her tail
And catches him. He clings to her long fur
By his thumbs and toes and teeth. - Randall Jarrell
Attribution: Randall Jarrell (1914–1965), U.S. poet, critic. Bats (l. 1–5). . . The Complete Poems [Randall Jarrell]. (1969; repr. 1989) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Categories: Bats, Birth, Critic

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