Carolina QuotesWhat Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it “comes into and steadies the soul,” so that the reader feels himself “a life prisoner, but reconciled.”
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Her Shield”, p. 187
- work
- Poetry and the Age (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- p. 187
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