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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
Tags: critics-and-criticism

Other Quotes by "Randall Jarrell"

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
— Randall Jarrell
Tags: meet, say, like, know
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
— Randall Jarrell
Tags: possible, think, culture, poetry
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
— Randall Jarrell
Tags: thinks, review, just, two, he
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
— Randall Jarrell The Complete Poems
Tags: wisdom, pain, knowledge
A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
— Randall Jarrell
Tags: poets-and-poetry
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