Randall Jarrell Quotes

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by ...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of...

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

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

It's ugly, but is it art?

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader a...

Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. Thi...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightni...

The cat's asleep; I whisper "kitten"Till he stirs a little and begins to purr--He doesn't wake. Toda...

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our sa...

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six mi...

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like ...

When I was young and miserable and prettyAnd poor, I'd wishWhat all girls wish: to have a husband,A ...

I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthles...