Randall Jarrell Quotes


"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Americans, states, United)

"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Politicians)

"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."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Poetry, Culture, Intellectuals)

"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Editors)

"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Men, Americans)

"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."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Facts, Obvious)

"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Life, Blind)

"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Age, People, Complaining)

"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Americans, English, Manners)

"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Home, Life, Idea, Rest)