Carolina QuotesMost works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“The Little Cars”, p. 200
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 200
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