Carolina QuotesWe never step twice into the same Auden. — HERACLITUS
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden’s Poetry”, p. 115; epigraph
- work
- The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
- year
- 1969
- locator
- p. 115
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“We never step twice into the same Auden. — HERACLITUS” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-45647C042F. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/45647c042f
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