Carolina Quotes...“originality” is everyone’s aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: “It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel’s discoveries.”
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
of modernism; “The End of the Line”, pp. 79–80
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- pp. 79–80
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“...“originality” is everyone’s aim, and novel techniques are…” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-597C9C3050. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/597c9c3050
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