Carolina QuotesPeople always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“The Obscurity of the Poet”, p. 24
- work
- Poetry and the Age (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- p. 24
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“People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs on…” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-7DA14EB893. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/7da14eb893
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