Carolina Quotes...a poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it...
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"The Woman at the Washington Zoo," [an essay about the writing of the poem by that name] from Understanding Poetry, third edition, ed. Cleanth Brooks (1960), p. 319
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 319
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