Prose Narrative Quotes by Randall Jarrell

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Randall Jarrell has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
• It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.
• I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either…
• It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but…
• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
• The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through…
• I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as…
• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or…

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