Quotes by : Randall Jarrell

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.

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

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

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

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

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

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

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

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