Carolina QuotesThe motto of his [Robinson Jeffers’s] work is “More! More!” — but as Tolstoy says, “A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion”; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: “A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.”
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Fifty Years of American Poetry”, pp. 322–323
- work
- The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
- year
- 1969
- locator
- pp. 322–323
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“The motto of his [Robinson Jeffers’s] work is “More! More!” …” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-25B3D85A9B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/25b3d85a9b
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