Randall Jarrell Quote

Many poets... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.


A Verse Chronicle, p. 149 - Poetry and the Age (1953)


Many poets... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

Many poets... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

Many poets... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

Many poets... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.