Randall Jarrell Quotes
Taking the chance of making a complete fool of himself - and, sometimes, doing so - is the first demand that is made upon any real critic: he must stick his neck out just as the artist does, if he is to be of any real use to art.
Quotes to Explore
-
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
-
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
-
I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
-
You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
-
I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
-
For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
-
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
-
If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
-
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
-
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
-
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
-
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
-
Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
-
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
-
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
-
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
-
I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
-
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
-
For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.
-
I don't want to be jumping from team to team.
-
If you don't watch 'The Young Turks,' you don't know me at all. Whereas no one watches Anderson Cooper, but everyone knows him.
-
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
-
The new plastic idea thus correctly represents actual aesthetic relationships. To the modern artist, it is a natural consequence of all the plastic ideas of the past. This is particularly true of painting, which is the art least bound to contingencies. The picture can be a pure reflection of life in its deepest essence.
-
Taking the chance of making a complete fool of himself - and, sometimes, doing so - is the first demand that is made upon any real critic: he must stick his neck out just as the artist does, if he is to be of any real use to art.
