Randall Jarrell Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 6, 1914 - October 14, 1965
Birthday: May 6
Death: October 14
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.
topic: Book, Taken, Rome, Luck And Skill, Printed Books
