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Habits are happiness of a sort ... — Randall Jarrell

Our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong. — Randall Jarrell

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

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence. — Randall Jarrell

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

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in. — Randall Jarrell

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. — Randall Jarrell

There is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it. — Randall Jarrell

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. — Randall Jarrell

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. — Randall Jarrell

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something. — Randall Jarrell

All of them are gone except for me; and for me nothing is gone. — Randall Jarrell

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

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. — Randall Jarrell

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time. — Randall Jarrell

The ways we miss our lives are life. — Randall Jarrell

It's ugly, but is it art? — Randall Jarrell

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen. — Randall Jarrell

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore? — Randall Jarrell

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

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. — Randall Jarrell

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help. — Randall Jarrell

One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world. — Randall Jarrell

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

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so. — Randall Jarrell

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. — Randall Jarrell

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad ... ; one suffers through the many for the few. — Randall Jarrell

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

Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best. — Randall Jarrell

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place. — Randall Jarrell

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

We can't tell our life from our wish — Randall Jarrell

Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell

The blind date that has stood you up: your life. — Randall Jarrell

The really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it ... — Randall Jarrell

Read at whim! read at whim! — Randall Jarrell

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. — Randall Jarrell

A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times. — Randall Jarrell

A person is a process, one that leads to death ... — Randall Jarrell

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it ... — Randall Jarrell

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day. — Randall Jarrell

If wishes were stories, beggars would read ... — Randall Jarrell

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

In the United States, there one feels free ... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster. — Randall Jarrell

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell

When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation. — Randall Jarrell

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this. — Randall Jarrell

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. — Randall Jarrell