Poetry Quote by Randall Jarell — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

“And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace”

“some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI”

“She could feel magic in the quiet spring day, like a sorcerer’s far-off voice, and lines of poetry floated over her mind as if they were strands of spider-web.”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

“I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.”

“A door jumps”