Randall Jarrell Quote

... 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)


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.