Randall Jarrell Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.

  Randall Jarrell

  Children, Book, Heart

  Randall Jarrell (1956). “Selected Poems”

• Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.

  Randall Jarrell

  Fall, Writing, Heart

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", pp. 332 - 333, 1969.

• If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.

  Randall Jarrell

  Beautiful, Heart, Looks

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Recent Poetry," The Yale Review (Autumn 1955), p. 237, 1980.

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