The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowsh… - Randall Jarrell
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowsh…
- Randall Jarrell
If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, an… - Randall Jarrell
If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, an…
The ways we miss our lives are life. - Randall Jarrell
The ways we miss our lives are life.
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art. - Randall Jarrell
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain. - Randall Jarrell
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong. - Randall Jarrell
our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. - Randall Jarrell
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. - Randall Jarrell
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside… - Randall Jarrell
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside…
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