Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets—and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don't have the pearls.


Recent Poetry, p. 225 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets—and, in a better world, it may be; but in ...

Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets—and, in a better world, it may be; but in ...

Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets—and, in a better world, it may be; but in ...

Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets—and, in a better world, it may be; but in ...