Randall Jarrell Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Long, Insects

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

• First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Book, Wife

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Very Graceful Are the Uses of Culture" (p. 211), 1980.

• 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

  Baby, Book, Men

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