Randall Jarrell Quotes

...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...

Randall Jarrell

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• The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Climb

• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Won

• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Wilderness
  • Connect

• My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Father
  • Myself

• When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • American
  • New

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Pretty
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

  

  Carla Hall
  • School
  • Why
  • Me

• Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Home
  • Day
  • End

• I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Always
  • Pure
  • Sciences

• I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Family
  • Health

• If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Connections

• Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Jesus
  • Fight
  • Grace

• At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Dry

• Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Depends
  • Social Hypocrisies

• My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.

  

  Christian Borle
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Soul
  • Desire

• ...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Poetry