Carolina QuotesThe Author to the Reader I’ve read that Luther said (it’s come to me So often that I’ve made it into meter): And even if the world should end tomorrow I still would plant my little apple-tree. Here, reader, is my little apple-tree.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
epigraph, p. vi
- work
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
- year
- 1962
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