... progress, in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and... the world's dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.


From That Island, p. 30 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

Progress, in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and...

Progress, in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and...

Progress, in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and...

Progress, in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and...