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Top 60 Randall Jarrell Quotes (2025 Update)
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Randall Jarrell Quote: “We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.”
Randall Jarrell Quote: “More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.”
Randall Jarrell Quote: “The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth.”
Randall Jarrell Quote: “In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.”
Randall Jarrell Quote: “If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.”
Randall Jarrell Quote: “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 Quote: “An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.”
Randall Jarrell Quote: “There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.”
Randall Jarrell Quote: “How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?”
Randall Jarrell Quote: “Is an institution always a man’s shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?”
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