Carolina QuotesWe always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn’t arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“On Preparing to Read Kipling”, p. 125
- work
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
- year
- 1962
- locator
- p. 125
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