Carolina QuotesIf wishes were stories, beggars would read...
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Stories”, p. 141
- work
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
- year
- 1962
- locator
- p. 141
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“If wishes were stories, beggars would read...” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-C2E420E3D4. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/c2e420e3d4
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...our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
She would have come from Paradise and complained to God that the apple wasn’t a winesap at all, but a great big pulpy Washington Delicious; and after the Ark she would have said that there had not been the animals, the spring rains, and the nice long ocean-voyage the prospectus from the travel agency had led her to expect — and that she had been most disappointed at not finding on Mount Ararat Prometheus.
What 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.”