Randall Jarrell Quote
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.
Fifty Years of American Poetry, pp. 332–333 - The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
