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Randall Jarrell Quotes

We can’t tell our life from our wish Picture Quote #1

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child Picture Quote #1

If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times Picture Quote #1

When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation Picture Quote #1

This sort of admission of error, of change, makes us trust a critic as nothing else but omniscience could Picture Quote #1

A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made Picture Quote #1

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Compare the saint who, asked what he would do if he had only an hour to live, replied that he would go on with his game of chess, since it was as much worship as anything else he had ever done Picture Quote #1

... Just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences Picture Quote #1

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that the way it really was half the time is, and half the time isn’t, the way it ought to be in the novel Picture Quote #1

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times Picture Quote #1

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren’t like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like Picture Quote #1

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry Picture Quote #1

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We died like aunts of pets or foreigners Picture Quote #1

Doesn’t the world need the painter’s praise anymore? Picture Quote #1

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain Picture Quote #1

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day Picture Quote #1

Read at whim! Read at whim! Picture Quote #1

... Whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best Picture Quote #1

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It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad Picture Quote #1

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art Picture Quote #1

Is an institution always a man’s shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it Picture Quote #1

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel Picture Quote #1

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone Picture Quote #1

Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By Picture Quote #1

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People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others Picture Quote #1

The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth Picture Quote #1

There is in this world no line so bad that someone won’t someday copy it Picture Quote #1

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child Picture Quote #1

Is an institution always a man’s shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? Picture Quote #1

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry Picture Quote #1

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We can’t tell our life from our wish (Randall Jarrell Quotes) One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child (Randall Jarrell Quotes) If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times (Randall Jarrell Quotes) When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation (Randall Jarrell Quotes) This sort of admission of error, of change, makes us trust a critic as nothing else but omniscience could (Randall Jarrell Quotes) A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Compare the saint who, asked what he would do if he had only an hour to live, replied that he would go on with his game of chess, since it was as much worship as anything else he had ever done (Randall Jarrell Quotes) ... Just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences (Randall Jarrell Quotes) One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that the way it really was half the time is, and half the time isn’t, the way it ought to be in the novel (Randall Jarrell Quotes) A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times (Randall Jarrell Quotes) If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren’t like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like (Randall Jarrell Quotes) I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry (Randall Jarrell Quotes) We died like aunts of pets or foreigners (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Doesn’t the world need the painter’s praise anymore? (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Read at whim! Read at whim! (Randall Jarrell Quotes) ... Whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best (Randall Jarrell Quotes) It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad (Randall Jarrell Quotes) The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Is an institution always a man’s shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it (Randall Jarrell Quotes) How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel (Randall Jarrell Quotes) More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By (Randall Jarrell Quotes) People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others (Randall Jarrell Quotes) The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth. (Randall Jarrell Quotes) There is in this world no line so bad that someone won’t someday copy it (Randall Jarrell Quotes) One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Is an institution always a man’s shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? (Randall Jarrell Quotes) I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry. (Randall Jarrell Quotes)

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