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
beautiful heart world
If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus .
miracle end-of-the-world enough
One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
world lines someday
there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.
world needs praise
Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?
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.
matter world quarrels
our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
dark world succeed
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
adjusted environment president
President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.
became clay dirty dressed future housewives pine red southern stare
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
american-poet partisan paul review thinks
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
except feels united
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
entertain home life rest
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life
blind date stood
The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
obvious
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.