Carolina QuotesMany poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“A Verse Chronicle”, p. 149
- work
- Poetry and the Age (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- p. 149
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“Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not…” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-AB70FE266C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/ab70fe266c
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