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
fall heart writing
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.
happiness whim
Read at whim! Read at whim!
loyal hell feels
the really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it...
missing way our-lives
The ways we miss our lives are life.
wish our-lives
We can't tell our life from our wish
believe poetry poet
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.
children facts forgotten
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
men six lightning
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.