Carolina Quotes...whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Recent Poetry”, p. 227
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 227
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