Carolina QuotesWho would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Her Shield”. p. 181
- work
- Poetry and the Age (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- p. 181
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