Author: Randall Jarrell

Quotes

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

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

- Randall Jarrell

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

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

- Randall Jarrell

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.

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

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.

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

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