Randall Jarrell Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

  Randall Jarrell

  Reading, Doe, Obscurity

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 4), 1955.

• 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.

  Randall Jarrell

  Usual, Teeth, Littles

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 216), 1955.

• Habits are happiness of a sort...

  Randall Jarrell

  Habit

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "An Unread Book" (p. 39), 1969.

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