Quotes by : Randall Jarrell

All of them are gone except for me and for me nothing is gone.

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....

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

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

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 good poet is someone 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....