Top 60 Randall Jarrell Quotes (2024 Update)
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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.”

51. “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.”

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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.”

52. “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.”

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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.”

53. “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.”

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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.”

54. “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.”

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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.”

55. “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.”

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Randall Jarrell Quote: “We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.”

56. “We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.”

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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.”

57. “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.”

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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?”

58. “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?”

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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.”

59. “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.”

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Randall Jarrell Quote: “Is an institution always a man’s shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?”

60. “Is an institution always a man’s shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?”

— Randall Jarrell

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