Carolina QuotesOne Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Some Lines from Whitman”, p. 119
- work
- Poetry and the Age (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- p. 119
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