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
death aunt pet
We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.
birthday yellow people
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
war fighting years
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.
equality long enough
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
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.
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 .
men thinking professors
Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.