Carolina QuotesLet’s say this together: “Great me no greats”, and leave this grading to posterity.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“A Poet’s Own Way”, p. 202
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 202
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