Quotes by : Randall Jarrell

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

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?

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

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....