Randall Jarrell Quote

But there is a Pope in the breast of each of us whom is hard to silence. Long ago a lady said to me, when I asked her the composers she liked: Dvorak. I said before I could stop myself: Dvorak! How many times, and with what shame, I've remembered it. And now I like Dvorak...


Speaking of Books, p. 220 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)


But there is a Pope in the breast of each of us whom is hard to silence. Long ago a lady said to me, when I asked her the composers she liked:...

But there is a Pope in the breast of each of us whom is hard to silence. Long ago a lady said to me, when I asked her the composers she liked:...

But there is a Pope in the breast of each of us whom is hard to silence. Long ago a lady said to me, when I asked her the composers she liked:...

But there is a Pope in the breast of each of us whom is hard to silence. Long ago a lady said to me, when I asked her the composers she liked:...