Carolina QuotesYou give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"The One Who Was Different"
- work
- The Lost World (1965)
- year
- 1965
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