... just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.


The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, p. 66 - The Third Book of Criticism (1969)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

Just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.

Just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.

Just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.

Just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.