Randall Jarrell Quotes

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

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  Men, Poetry, Lightning

  1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

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• If wishes were stories, beggars would read.

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  Wish, Stories, Beggar

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

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  Way, Speak, Forget

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• The ways we miss our lives are life.

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  Missing, Way, Our Lives

  Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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

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  Wisdom, Children, Facts

  Third book of Criticism

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• Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

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  Hurt, Pain, Darkness

  Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

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  Animal, Form, Human Life

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 22), 1955.

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• most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

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  Guerra, Lucha, Años

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Poetry in War and Peace" (p. 129), 1980.

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• 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 the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.

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  Fall, Writing, Heart

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", pp. 332 - 333, 1969.

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• Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

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  Reality, Want

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

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  Art, World, Way

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• We can't tell our life from our wish

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  Wish, Our Lives

  Randall Jarrell, “A Man Meets A Woman In The Street”

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• our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.

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  World, Matter, Quarrels

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

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  Dark, World, Succeed

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• If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

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  Equality, Long, Enough

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• The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

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  Birthday, Yellow, People

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.

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  World, Lines, Someday

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Profession of Poetry" (p. 165), 1980.

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• The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

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  Crafts, Narrative, Length

  "The Rumpus mini-interview project #102: Max Winter". Interview with Maria Anderson, therumpus.net. September 21, 2017.

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• Read at whim! Read at whim!

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  Happiness, Whim

  "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables" by Randall Jarrell, (pp. 112-113), 1962.

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• We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

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  Habla

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.

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  Giving, Feelings, Made

  Randall Jarrell (1966). “The Lost World”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode

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• It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

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  Believe, Poetry, Poet

  Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

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  Decision, Chinese, Age

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "An Unread Book", p. 42, 1969.

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• Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

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  Art, Ornaments, Occupation

  "No Other Book: Selected Essays" by Randall Jarrell, edited by Brad Leithauser, (p. 15), 1999.

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• Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

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  Oysters, Pearls

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.181, University of Chicago Press

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