Carolina QuotesA good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"Poetry in War and Peace," Partisan Review (Winter 1945), p. 133
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 133
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