The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell
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
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
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.