Randall Jarrell Quote

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, That were to consider it too curiously.


The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, p. 64 - The Third Book of Criticism (1969)


Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa,...

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa,...

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa,...

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa,...