Carolina QuotesCarl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Contemporary Poetry Criticism”, p. 61
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 61
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