Carolina QuotesWhen you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"Five Poets," The Yale Review (Autumn 1956), p. 263
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 263
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