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Randall Jarrell Quotes

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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) Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) The ways we miss our lives are life  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) We are all so to speak intellectuals about something  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) ... the work of a poet who has a real talent, but not for words  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Auden has gone in the right direction, and a great deal too far  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) If wishes were stories, beggars would read  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) A person is a process, one that leads to death  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) But be, as you have been, my happiness  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) The blind date that has stood you up: your life  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) As Blake said, there is no competition between true poets  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) ... A novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) ... In this world, often, there is nothing to praise but no one to blame  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) ... The really damned not only like hell, they feel loyal to it  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil  (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) The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) ... there is in this world no line so bad that someone won’t someday copy it  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) When you’re young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) Let’s say this together: Great me no greats, and leave this grading to posterity  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) ... A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it  (Randall Jarrell Quotes) For this last savior, man, I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying? Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can: I find no fault in this just man  (Randall Jarrell Quotes)
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