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Randall Jarrell quotes: Habits are happiness of a sort ... Habits are happiness of a sort ...
Randall Jarrell quotes: Our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong. Our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
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. 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: Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence. Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.
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. 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: When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in. When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.
Randall Jarrell quotes: The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Randall Jarrell quotes: We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.
Randall Jarrell quotes: There is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it. There is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.
Randall Jarrell quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
Randall Jarrell quotes: We are all so to speak intellectuals about something. We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.
Randall Jarrell quotes: All of them are gone except for me; and for me nothing is gone. All of them are gone except for me; and for me nothing is gone.
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 ... 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: To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Randall Jarrell quotes: The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time. The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
Randall Jarrell quotes: The ways we miss our lives are life. The ways we miss our lives are life.
Randall Jarrell quotes: It's ugly, but is it art? It's ugly, but is it art?
Randall Jarrell quotes: Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen. Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
Randall Jarrell quotes: Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore? Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?
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? 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: It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. 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: 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. 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 quotes: One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world. One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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 ... 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: 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 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 quotes: He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Randall Jarrell quotes: Most works of art are, necessarily, bad ... ; one suffers through the many for the few. Most works of art are, necessarily, bad ... ; one suffers through the many for the few.
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. 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: Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best. Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
Randall Jarrell quotes: If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place. If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
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. 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: We can't tell our life from our wish We can't tell our life from our wish
Randall Jarrell quotes: Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
Randall Jarrell quotes: The blind date that has stood you up: your life. The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
Randall Jarrell quotes: The really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it ... The really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it ...
Randall Jarrell quotes: Read at whim! read at whim! Read at whim! read at whim!
Randall Jarrell quotes: Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.
Randall Jarrell quotes: A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times. 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 quotes: A person is a process, one that leads to death ... A person is a process, one that leads to death ...
Randall Jarrell quotes: A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it ... A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it ...
Randall Jarrell quotes: Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day. Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
Randall Jarrell quotes: If wishes were stories, beggars would read ... If wishes were stories, beggars would read ...
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. 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: In the United States, there one feels free ... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster. In the United States, there one feels free ... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell quotes: Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?
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. 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: 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. 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 quotes: The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

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