Carolina QuotesWe know from many experiences that this is what the work of art does: its life — in which we have shared the alien existences both of this world and of that different world to which the work of art alone gives us access — unwillingly accuses our lives.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"The Profession of Poetry," Partisan Review (September/October 1950), p. 166
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 166
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“We know from many experiences that this is what the work of …” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-EECFB7928E. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/eecfb7928e