Randall Jarrell

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#lifetime #lightning #man #manages #out

It's ugly, but is it art? ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#modernism #art

The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life Loses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#poetry #death

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#just #partisan #paul #review #thinks

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

#each #either #europeans #i #less

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#around #complaining #everything #go #golden

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

#dozen #honest #hundred #intelligent #know

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#entertain #home #idea #life #live

The blind date that has stood you up: your life. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#date #life #stood #up #you

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#far #frightening #manners #more #none