Quotes by : Randall Jarrell

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

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 and....

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

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

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....

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....