Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrellwas an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 May 1914
CountryUnited States of America
process persons
A person is a process, one that leads to death...
men shadow sun
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?
children book heart
And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.
different lexicon looks
Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
writing poet cures
Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
voice age gertrude
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.
happens
Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
manners frightening
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
time real war
The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
thinking nine culture
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry
crafts narrative length
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
art way world
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.
pain ignorance darkness
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
home ideas rest-of-your-life
It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.